File Sharing Security

[Guest]

Hello all and happy new year

I have 4 PCs in my office,one is running win xp pro and the rest home
edition. At xp pro pc the drive c: is shared and mapped in one of the home
edition pc. I tried to exclude the rest 2 home edition pcs from viewing and
accessing the shared drive in the xp pro pc using sharing and security
properties but there was no significant resault.
Thanks for any help and my apologies if i apllied to wrong forum

 

[Guest]

This is a question with no one single answer, as it depends very much on your
file-sharing computer's setttings.

If the Pro computer has Simple File Sharing ON, then the Guest account is
used for file sharing. In this case, setting a password on the guest account
will restrict access to those users who know it. This may be adequate.

If Simple Sharing is OFF, then firstly note that permissions work by user,
not by computer, so it all depends on which credentials are active on the
client computers.

In this case you need to create a user-account on the host computer to match
each of those on the clients, and grant (or don't grant) rights to the share
for each account. Note that you should grant these rights under the share
permissions, not on the filesystem-permissions tab. These two are often
confused.

Hope this helps.

You might want to take a look at MyLogon, it's designed for this kind of
setup, and will give your users a 'proper' logon to the sharing computer. I
developed this for smaller sites that want a professional-looking and secure
logon but can't justify the cost/complexity of a domain-controller.
http://mylogon.net