File sharing catastrophe !

[Borneo]

Can anybody help me ? I´m setting up advanced file
sharing and I want to select users that can access my
shares from the network. But when I get into Sharing tab
and Permissions, Add ... I cannot add anybody but local
users. From the Locations ... I can only choose my
computer and I cannot see other computers or workgroups.

IS SOMEWHERE OUT THERE SOLUTION FOR ME ???

With network everything works fine, I can browse other
computers and access internet and they can browse mine -
and that´s what I want to stop.

THANX!

 

[Haggis]

Can anybody help me ? I´m setting up advanced file
sharing and I want to select users that can access my
shares from the network. But when I get into Sharing tab
and Permissions, Add ... I cannot add anybody but local
users. From the Locations ... I can only choose my
computer and I cannot see other computers or workgroups.

IS SOMEWHERE OUT THERE SOLUTION FOR ME ???

With network everything works fine, I can browse other
computers and access internet and they can browse mine -
and that´s what I want to stop.

THANX!

don't share your harddrive....or share it read only

 

[Ron Lowe]

Can anybody help me ? I´m setting up advanced file
sharing and I want to select users that can access my
shares from the network. But when I get into Sharing tab
and Permissions, Add ... I cannot add anybody but local
users. From the Locations ... I can only choose my
computer and I cannot see other computers or workgroups.

IS SOMEWHERE OUT THERE SOLUTION FOR ME ???

With network everything works fine, I can browse other
computers and access internet and they can browse mine -
and that´s what I want to stop.

THANX!





What you see is the correct behaviour.

In a workgroup ( as opposed to a Domain ), a computer can only reference
user accounts defined locally ( on itself ).

The work-around is to create matching user accounts on the local machine
which are the same as the user accounts on the remote machines where the
other users are logged in. ( same username and password ).

In otherwords, you need to maintain simultaneous user accounts for all users
on all machines to be able to grant access rights in a workgroup. After
the network expands beyond a few servers, this does not scale well and
maintaining these simultaneous accounts becomes an admin burden. That's
when you need to look at setting up a domain using windows server 2k3 or
similar. This permits the creation of a 'centralised' user account
database which all the machines can access.

When you have a domain, then in the loactions section, you can select
between local users or domain users.