Re: Folder Sharing Security

Thanks for the extra links and for all your help.
I'll end this thread here and do some reading.
If I have any specific questions, I'll re-post.

Mike


"Malke" wrote:

Mike wrote:

Malke,

Thanks again for the information. I think I'm beginning to understand how
to set this up.

Based on your reply I would ask, is it a bad thing to have it so that
another user would have to "login" to my machine? I find having one
account to setup and maintain rather appealing and I could just give out
that user name and password to those I want to be able to access my
folder.

Would this work, or am I still missing something?

The answer all depends on whether this your computers are in an office
and/or what your need for security is. Only you know this. As far as having
only one user account to maintain, if you create matching user accounts you
don't even ever have to log into the extra ones so no particular
maintenance is necessary.

Perhaps it would be helpful for you to do some reading about networks rather
than have this "conversation" in a newsgroup. I'm happy to answer specific
questions of course, but you may find it more time-efficient to look at
these links.

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm (Home)
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm (Pro)
http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm
http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/myths.htm
http://www.howtonetworking.com/default.htm
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

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