Limited Account folder sharing

[Keith]

I have two XP Pro machines each with two user accounts. On each machine one
account has admin privileges the other is a limited account.

I'm new to XP and networking and so I tried networking the two machines. On
the same workgroup and using simple file sharing I had no problems.

Then on one of the machines, I turned off simple file sharing and started
playing.

I noticed that even on the limited account it is possible to set security
options for Allow and Deny, so I denied access to the "Documents and
Settings" folder for the admin account.

I expected that when I logged into the admin account that I would still have
full access to this folder, but was surprised to find that I had indeed
locked the admin user account out. I thought the whole point of a limited
account was to stop users from messing up your system.

Is this normal or have I confused my system into treating this limited
account as though it was an admin account? I ask because I did change the
limited account to an admin account a few days ago in order to run some
software that only runs with admin privileges.

thanks

Keith

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

If you changed the limited account to and admin one, then it will have
sufficient level of privileges to make permission changes to other admin
accounts. This is why you were able to do that.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org