Re: are non-Administrator accounts necessary?

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:38:54 -0500

Depends on what you want to accomplish. If you don't want all users to be
able to have admin rights on folders, etc., on your--or their--computer,
don't give them admin rights and have them use regular user accounts. Create
all accounts on all computers identically.

aa wrote:
> In peer-to-peer home workgroup network, to access from one computer a
> printer or a file on another computer, do I need to set up a user
> acount other then Administrator on each computer?

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