Re: controlling access to networked drives & folders
- From: "Steve Winograd [MVP]" <bcmaven@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:42:13 -0600
In article <5A1BA3A1-3452-42A6-8D1E-6A570F8AE45B@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Adam
Skeaping <adamskeaping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As someone who is familiar with setting up a workgroup of networked WIN 98
computers, I am baffled by the industrial-strength management of sharing and
permissions available in XP Pro.
I need to administer a workgroup of 6 computers, 5 with XP Pro and one with
XP Home. Most of them have NTFS partitions, but there are one or two FAT32
partitions still in use.
In the Good Old Days of Win98, I could control Who could access What simply
by assigning a password to any folder or drive on any computer on the
network. This is not possible with XP's Simple File Sharing, and when I turn
this off I am completely baffled by what seems an arcane system of
permissions, users, and groups.
I have struggled vainly for days to get to grips with this, but my brain
feels just too small; and I would be v. grateful to anybody who can point me
to a resource for earnest semi-morons seeking enlightenment and practical
understanding of the whole subject of workgroup administration; in
particular, the managment of user access to resources on the network...
Ron Lowe and I have written a web page that explains how to set up
permissions, users, and groups:
Windows XP Professional File Sharing
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
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