Re: Can't set permissions

From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:12:30 -0700

In article <5FBFAD14-D432-460C-8D8A-F990EBC7A90E@microsoft.com>, Rob
Roark <RobRoark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I've got two PC's in the same workgroup, both running XP Pro SP2. I'd like
>to use a NTFS partition on one of them to back up data from the other. I
>want to set permissions so that only the user of the PC doing the backup can
>see the data (not even the user on the PC being backed up to) I've tried to
>set it so that only that user has read/write, etc. permissions, but whenever
>I attempt to add a user to the list in the sharing tab of the partition, I'm
>unable to search anything other than the local machine. How can I add a user
>on another PC?

That's how it is in a workgroup, Rob: you can only specify permissions
for users on the local machine. Create a user account on the local
machine with the same user name and password that you use to log onto
the other machine. The permissions that you set for the local user
will also apply to the network user. Specify the user as:

   LocalMachine\UserName

I don't think it's possible to prevent the user on the local machine
from accessing its own data on the local machine. 

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