controlling access to networked drives & folders

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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...
 
Adam said:
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...
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How to disable Simple Sharing and set permissions on a shared folder in
Windows XP (Pro only)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307874

HOW TO: Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308418

It might also be worthwhile having a local professional come in and set
you up. You could watch.

Malke
 
Actually it is possible, you just need to set a password on the guest account
There is however a limitation that all shares on the same computer have the
same password. The easiest way to do this is with a

net user guest {password}

command from a commandprompt.
 
Adam said:
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...
Click to expand...

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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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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