Re: Home Networking and Administrator Rights - Surely It's Not Thi

Appreciate the response, shark. I don't THINK I have a God complex - and
actually, the desire to control MIKEOLDPC was stemming more from laziness
than anything else. I had wiped MIKEOLDPC clean and reinstalled from an OEM
restore disk - not only did I get AOL, but also Compuserve and several other
software 'goodies' that are now (mostly, thankfully) extinct. I wanted to
sit at my nice comfortable desk in front of my nice new PC to do all the
deleting of old software and adding of new that had to happen. I was
consistently - and I do mean consistently - blocked most of the time -
besides being admin on both machines, setting any group policy that I thought
would help, AND sharing the root of EVERY hard drive on both machines, I
still couldn't do what I wanted to do. It still seems strange to me that
there isn't some way to completely break that down other than buying
something like PC Anywhere - which retails for about $200. But I hear you
saying that this is the case. It became more of a mission to me at some
point - convinced that I was just doing something wrong or missing something
entirely. I feel better now and I have chipped away at it until I've got it
somewhat where I want it. It was a lot of work, though - but a great
learning experience. Thanks again.
--
Geordie in Texas


"Shark" wrote:

Networking computers is meant to share resources on each other.
Specifically, what resources do you want to access on MIKEOLDPC from
MIKENEWPC (or vice-versa)? And what difficulty are you having with
that?

If it's files, then manually specifying which folders you want to
share should do it. Be aware that in XP Home, as I understand it, it
was not meant to disable "Simple File Sharing" so customizing folder
access would have a lot of limitations. I believe it's possible to
disable SFS in Home but it's not straightforward. Either way, COMPLETE
and FULL access to every folder (as I believe you want it) on either
computer is not sensible from a security standpoint. This could be
accomplished by sharing the root of your HD, but I strongly advise you
not to do it, and specially on your system HD.

But I have a feeling you want more than files... What you want (at
least what I think it is) is NOT very typical. "I am God of these
computers and my powers are infinite". That really goes beyond the
concept of SHARING. But it can be achieved with additional software.
Look into something like PCanywhere or some other equivalent tool.
These softwares allow you to remotely control a computer and do pretty
much anything.

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