Leave only servers for Administrators

[Alexander Glazkov]

I'm an admin. Why shoud I spy on bosses' documents on
their WinXP FAT-disk-based systems? I really want to
disable admin access to c$. How to?

 

[Miha Pihler]

Hi,

this should help you out.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288164

Is there any good reason your are using FAT instead of NTFS?

 

[Alexander Glazkov]

-----Original Message-----
Hi,

this should help you out.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-

us;288164

That's not for WinXP!!! There's no such a Policy entry.

Is there any good reason your are using FAT instead of NTFS?

Is there any good reason to mourn the loss of disk write
performance (notorios fixed transactional write)?
Why MS doesn't publish test results that show 2-3 times
write speed degrade in comparison with read speed?

Is there any good reason to mourn the loss of data after
system crash?

 

[Miha Pihler]

Hi,

Read the article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288164
- check the last bullet under information applies to:

The information in this article applies to:
a.. Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
b.. Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
c.. Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
d.. Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
e.. Microsoft Windows XP Professional
If system crashes you can get your data back same way as on hard disks
formatted with FAT (if it is not hardware malfunction -- but in that case
not even FAT can help you)...

I am yet to see a person that can produce documents so fast that NTFS files
system is too slow for them ... ;-)

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Alexander,

If we ignore millisecond bench mark figures and look at the real world.
On a modern PC a user running normal productivity applications doe snot
notice any performance difference between a FAT32 and NTFS filesystem.
You also mention the loss of data on a power outage or system crash.
Firstly Windows XP is significanlty less likely to crash then previous
opertaing systems and dramtically more stable then the Windows 9x products.
Also in the event of a crash or power outage the journaled/transactional
NTFS filesystem is more likely to recover cleanly then a FAT/FAT32
filesystem
And finally as you have covered in both of your posts
- Security
----- FAT/FAT32 = NONE
----- NTFS = LOTS

Finally http://support.microsoft.com/?id=288164 is relevant to Windows XP.
The reason you do not see the parameters mentioned is as it states in the
article YOU have to add it yourself. The default setting to enable the Admin
shares is yes so you need to add the key to disable it. DO add both values
as detailed.
--
Regards,

Mike
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[Miha Pihler]

One more thing on security, NTFS and speed.

We all know that encryption (any kind) takes time and resources. E.g. if you
use IPSec you can have up to about 40% loss in seed of data transfer. But
yet we still use it? Why if we can have better performance without any use
of encryption ...? Well just a thought...