Hi All!

I am running a small LAN at my office and am a little confused by some
things that I hope you could answer for me.

1)
In order to share files or a printer:
- host machine (which has files/printer to be shared) grants access to a
group or individual user
- if group, client machine (that wants to use shared resource) must belong
to same group
- if individual user, client machine *and* host must have the same user
created on them with matching username, password, description etc.

2)
Would changing a password on the client ever mean that it couldn't access a
shared resource on the host?

3)
Is it possible to use the host machine (say machine A) to contain a list of
all users such that when somebody wants to log in to machine B, C or D, that
machine will query machine A to find out if the login is correct.

4)
If I can do 3), can I use that list to share any resource on the network
attached to any machine by assigning permissions to users whose records are
stored on Machine A.


Thank you for any advice!

Rob

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"Robert Mark Bram" <none> wrote in message
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> Hi All!
>
> I am running a small LAN at my office and am a little confused by some
> things that I hope you could answer for me.
>
> 1)
> In order to share files or a printer:
> - host machine (which has files/printer to be shared) grants access to a
> group or individual user
> - if group, client machine (that wants to use shared resource) must
belong
> to same group
> - if individual user, client machine *and* host must have the same user
> created on them with matching username, password, description etc.

Yep, absolutely right.

> 2)
> Would changing a password on the client ever mean that it couldn't access
a
> shared resource on the host?

Yes, unless the passwords are changed on both client and host.

> 3)
> Is it possible to use the host machine (say machine A) to contain a list
of
> all users such that when somebody wants to log in to machine B, C or D,
that
> machine will query machine A to find out if the login is correct.

Unfortunately, no. The closest you can come to this is to create a domain
on your network, then the domain controller(s) would control user accounts,
access lists and passwords.

> 4)
> If I can do 3), can I use that list to share any resource on the network
> attached to any machine by assigning permissions to users whose records
are
> stored on Machine A.

See the answer to #3.

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