Folder permissions question

[Guest]

Hi All,

I have a small business with three employees. We have five computers:

- each of the three employees has a Windows XP Professional machine
- we have a Windoxs XP Home Edition storage box
- we have a Mac OS X powerbook (one team member uses this machine as his
primary computer)

All of the machines are connected to the web and to the storage box through
a Linksys wireless access point / router. We use the storage box to store
and share all of our corporate files.

Going forward, we'd like to create folders on the storage box that only a
sub-set of the team can access (e.g., we want to create an "executive" folder
that includes sensitive HR-related files). Can anyone tell me how to
configure the network machines to get this result?

Thank you!

--bg

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

If you want this kind of granular permissions control, you need to upgrade
the storage box to XP Pro.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Guest]

Doug,

Thanks for the advice. I could swap one of the XP Pro machines with the XP
Home machine and make the XP Pro the storage box. What do I need to do to
the XP Pro machine to enable this type of permissions control?

Thank you for your advice!

 

[Guest]

You will need to Disable Simple File Sharing on the XP Pro machine that is
hosting your files,

You will then be able to Share and assign Security permissions on a per user
basis.