Re: Windows XP User Rights

From: a (a_at_a.a)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:11:05 +1200

In article <40DCF378.70200@nomail.invalid>,
patrickdunford@nomail.invalid says...
> I want to share a CD ROM Drive and specify which users can have access
> to it.
>
> The computer is joined to a domain so I go to USer Accounts and add a
> local user called X using the button to add a local user (because the
> user is not part of the domain that this machine is joined to). I make
> them a Power User.
>
> I go to the CD ROM drive, right click, sharing and security, enter share
> name cdrom, click Permissions button, specify that user X will have
> access. Give them Full Control.
>
> I then try to get access to the CDROM from another computer, running
> Windows 98, which is not joined to the domain. Try logging on as X with
> their password. No go. Asked for a password to access the CDROM, put the
> password in, told "Incorrect Password". (The dialog box that appears is
> the peer to peer one, with only a password field, not the domain access
> one for both username and password)
>
> The only way I can get access to the CDROM drive is to log onto the
> Windows 98 machine using the administrator username and password of the
> XP machine. Then, it works fine.
>
> My understanding of peer to peer resource access in Windows XP (going
> back to NT4) is that I need to have a user account on the Windows XP
> machine. It doesn't need to be an administrator. So logging on as X
> should give me access to the shared resource because X has a local user
> account on the XP computer. But it doesn't work. Why is that?
>
Have you checked out the local security policy on the Windows XP
machine? There is an option to allow/block access to devices such as
CDROMS Local Policies -> Security Options. Domain settingscould be
overiding these.