Network Permissions Help

[pnutbdr]

Hello to all.
My office has a peer-peer network mixed with W2K and XP Pro Stations.
We want to share some folders, but want to set access control
permssions.

When browsing Network neighborhood, I can see and access shared
folders from other computers on the network.

Now suppose I want to share a folder on my computer, but with read
only permissions. When I right click on the folder and select "share"
then select "permissions" and the "add",

I try entering in users "\\computer\username" and I get the message,

"Check the selected object types and location for accuracy and ensure
that you typed the object name correctly, or remove this object from
the selection.

If I click on "location", the only selection available is my computer.
I cannot give permissions to any other network users or computers as I
cannot see them to add them.

I am sure the is a setting somewhere that enables me to give network
users specific access control permissions to my folders.

Can anyone help?

 

[Danny Sanders]

My office has a peer-peer network mixed with W2K and XP Pro Stations

Without a domain you are going to have to create a new user on your computer
using the same username and password the user you want to share the folder
with, uses to log onto their machine.

If I click on "location", the only selection available is my computer.
I cannot give permissions to any other network users or computers as I
cannot see them to add them.

After the above step you will see their name with the location set as "my
computer". Select that user and grant them the proper permission to the
file. When they change their password, you will have to change their
password on your computer. Want to share those files with 20 users, create
those 20 users on your computer. Your computer has to "Know" who the user is
you want to share the folder with. When you create the user on your
computer, you are telling windows, "this is a user", defining the
permissions tells windows what this user can do.

hth
DDS

 

[Kurt]

Hello to all.
My office has a peer-peer network mixed with W2K and XP Pro Stations.
We want to share some folders, but want to set access control
permssions.

When browsing Network neighborhood, I can see and access shared
folders from other computers on the network.

Now suppose I want to share a folder on my computer, but with read
only permissions. When I right click on the folder and select "share"
then select "permissions" and the "add",

I try entering in users "\\computer\username" and I get the message,

"Check the selected object types and location for accuracy and ensure
that you typed the object name correctly, or remove this object from
the selection.

If I click on "location", the only selection available is my computer.
I cannot give permissions to any other network users or computers as I
cannot see them to add them.

I am sure the is a setting somewhere that enables me to give network
users specific access control permissions to my folders.

Can anyone help?

In a peer-to-peer network, each computer holds its own accounts and
handles authentication based on those accounts. Users on other computers
are unknown. Windows supports "pass-thru" authentication, where the
credentials of the account on a computer trying to access something
that's shared on another computer are presented when they try to access
it. In order for pass-thru authentication to work, you must have an
account on your computer (assuming your computer is sharing a folder)
that matches the account of the user logged in to the computer trying to
access your share. The username and password must be identical on both
computers.

Only in a Windows domain can you have a central authority that will
authenticate users on all of the computers in the domain. If you have
more than just a handful of users, a domain is worth consideration.
Otherwise every time a user changes a password, you have to go around to
every computer that shares resources to that user and change it there
too. Every new user must be added to every computer where they need to
access something, and every time an employee leaves the company, you'll
have to delete that account from every computer. That means keeping
exacting records of every user account, every shared resource, and every
permission granted based on those user accounts.

....kurt

 

[pnutbdr]

Without a domain you are going to have to create a new user on your computer
using the same username and password the user you want to share the folder
with, uses to log onto their machine.


After the above step you will see their name with the location set as "my
computer". Select that user and grant them the proper permission to the
file. When they change their password, you will have to change their
password on your computer. Want to share those files with 20 users, create
those 20 users on your computer. Your computer has to "Know" who the user is
you want to share the folder with. When you create the user on your
computer, you are telling windows, "this is a user", defining the
permissions tells windows what this user can do.

hth
DDS

Thank you for taking the time to help solve our dilemma. I think it's
time for a server/client network.