Need general information

[Jennifer W]

Hi,

I am "in charge" of a peer-to-peer network of about 15 users. There is no
server. We are all running Windows XP Home and Pro.

For security reasons, I would like to be able to create some workgroups and
limit file sharing to certain users.

Do all machines need XP Pro to do this kind of thing ?

Thanks, Jennifer

 

[Jim Macklin]

XP Home is limited to 5 connections, but Pro will work with
10. Pro can also join a domain.
You can use NTFS file systems and allow sharing in
workgroups with proper permissions/passwords.


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| Hi,
|
| I am "in charge" of a peer-to-peer network of about 15
users. There is no
| server. We are all running Windows XP Home and Pro.
|
| For security reasons, I would like to be able to create
some workgroups and
| limit file sharing to certain users.
|
| Do all machines need XP Pro to do this kind of thing ?
|
| Thanks, Jennifer
|
|

 

[Malke]

Hi,

I am "in charge" of a peer-to-peer network of about 15 users. There is
no
server. We are all running Windows XP Home and Pro.

For security reasons, I would like to be able to create some
workgroups and limit file sharing to certain users.

Do all machines need XP Pro to do this kind of thing ?

Thanks, Jennifer

Hi, Jennifer. First of all, you really should look into putting a real
server operating system in place with that many workstations. It will
make it far easier to manage the workstations centrally and also to
control the workstation environments. It will also prevent running into
the inbound concurrent connection limitation.

That said, Workgroups are just a cosmetic/organizational tool. Any
Windows machine in any Workgroup can share resources on a network. You
really do need XP Pro to do the kind of fine-grained permissions you
are thinking about. With Pro, you can create user groups, add
appropriate users to those groups (not forgetting yourself and
Administrator of course!) and then assign permissions to resources
accordingly. You can't do this with Home, so you should think about
upgrading the Home machines to Pro.

Malke

 

[Ron Martell]

Hi, Jennifer. First of all, you really should look into putting a real
server operating system in place with that many workstations. It will
make it far easier to manage the workstations centrally and also to
control the workstation environments. It will also prevent running into
the inbound concurrent connection limitation.

That said, Workgroups are just a cosmetic/organizational tool. Any
Windows machine in any Workgroup can share resources on a network. You
really do need XP Pro to do the kind of fine-grained permissions you
are thinking about. With Pro, you can create user groups, add
appropriate users to those groups (not forgetting yourself and
Administrator of course!) and then assign permissions to resources
accordingly. You can't do this with Home, so you should think about
upgrading the Home machines to Pro.

Malke

And with 15 machines you should look into the possibility of volume
licensing rather than purchasing retail packages for each machine.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

 

[Richard G. Harper]

I strongly second Malke's advice here. If you use a peer-to-peer network
you must manage security and accounts on every box in the network, but a
domain/server model centralizes the management and will be far easier to
enforce.

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