Limited Account folder sharing

I have two XP Pro machines each with two user accounts. On each machine one
account has admin privileges the other is a limited account.

I'm new to XP and networking and so I tried networking the two machines. On
the same workgroup and using simple file sharing I had no problems.

Then on one of the machines, I turned off simple file sharing and started
playing.

I noticed that even on the limited account it is possible to set security
options for Allow and Deny, so I denied access to the "Documents and
Settings" folder for the admin account.

I expected that when I logged into the admin account that I would still have
full access to this folder, but was surprised to find that I had indeed
locked the admin user account out. I thought the whole point of a limited
account was to stop users from messing up your system.

Is this normal or have I confused my system into treating this limited
account as though it was an admin account? I ask because I did change the
limited account to an admin account a few days ago in order to run some
software that only runs with admin privileges.

thanks

Keith


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