Stubborn file permission questions

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From: Eric (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/26/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:49:46 -0700

I have a two-computer network -- one running XP Home and
the other running XP Pro. It's the XP Pro machine I have
questions about. I have three separate questions:

(1) When I try to access file permissions I can only see
the computer XP Pro is loaded onto, not the XP Home
machine. What settings do I need to set on both machines
to fix this?

(2) Under Administrative Tools>Local Security
Policy>Security Settings>Local Policies>User Rights
Assignment>Access this computer from the network, you are
able to assign which computers can access your computer.
Does this override the settings that you established in
the Sharing and Permissions. In other words, if you set
up the permissions for a computer to access a file on
your computer, and you then gave a security policy that
didn't allow that computer to access your computer, would
that other computer then be unable to view the file on
your computer, even though it has "permission" to do so?

(3) If you only wanted a few computers on the network to
be able to access shared filed on your computer, could
you do this via the administrative tools, and not have to
set it for each file or folder that you are sharing, and
then just use the permissions to further restrict who can
see something?

Thanks,
Eric

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