Re: restricting a drive to a particular user

To do that you would need to use XP Pro on your main computer because XP Home
only uses simple file sharing which means that everyone must have share and
folder permissions to the share for anyone to access it. In XP Pro you can
disable simple file sharing and thus give specific users/groups instead of
everyone share permissions. --- Steve

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm --- XP simple
file sharing explained

"David Rothman" <drothman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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my main machine is running XP-Home but has doug knox's kludge security tab:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_home_sectab.htm

(this lets me have an xp pro-like security tab in xp home.)

other machines are both xp-home and xp-pro.

i have a 2nd drive in my main machine (F:). i have restricted access on
that machine to ME (no other logon has accces to that drive).

i have identical logons on all my other machines (same username/pw).

no users on any of the other machines can access f:, but i would like access
to it (when i'm logged on as ME). i can't figure out what to enter in the
Security tab to enable this.

can anyone help? thanks

p.s. i had been accomplishing this using hidden drives, but i find when i
use \\main\f$ , the action of me typing that string in causes it to hang
around on that remote machine and thus others are able to see it. my
preference is a drive that's totally closed to everyone other than user =
ME.




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