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[BALKY]

I have a few questions.

I am a little confused, and am hoping that someone will help me. I
understand the concept of sharing files on the same pc with other users and
with other pc's. When you SHARE a folder, there are two tabs SHARE and
SECURITY. They work together in a way... I just can't figure out how and
when and why. Is security tab used only for restricting access on the
single computer and have nothing to do with other computers accessing yours?
Please explain what it is to me.

Also, I want to know:

If I restrict users from accessing my folders, then they get a warning
message ACCESS DENIED. But sometimes they get a screen asking them to put
in a user name and password to access. What controls that. It is a mistery
to me. I would prefer a prompt for a password sometimes rather than a
ACCESS DENIED message.


I really appreciate any help here

Thanks

 

[Miha Pihler]

Hi,

It's true that share and NFTS (file) permissions work together. If user has
read permission on NTFS and Full Control on Share, he will be granted most
restricted access to the files over the share and that is Read. If user has
Full Control on NTFS and Read on Share he will only be able to read the
files over share, but will be have full access when user logs on locally to
the PC... If you give user full access on NTFS and Deny Access on Share,
user will not have access to the files over share but again, will have full
access if logged on locally.

Mike

 

[BALKY]

Thank you very much for your reply! However, you skipped my second question


If I restrict users from accessing my folders, then they get a warning
message ACCESS DENIED. But sometimes they get a screen asking them to put
in a user name and password to access. What controls that. It is a
mistery
to me. I would prefer a prompt for a password sometimes rather than a
ACCESS DENIED message.

 

[Miha Pihler]

There are few options. One is e.g. if I am logged on to the PC B with
Administrator account and I am trying to access PC A over network. When I
try to access it, computer A demands username and password. My computer B
sends it as "Administrator" and password of "PasswordB". On computer A there
is "Administrator" account but it has password of "PasswordA" so in this
case I get Access Denied since the password doesn't match...

You can always get access (if you have valid account) by mapping drives.
E.g. if you would like to map network drive using logon script you would
write down:

net use w: \\computera\share /user:administrator passworda

Mike

 

[BALKY]

COOL. It is getting clearer a bit. What you described, I believe, is
happening behing the scenes... right? But sometimes windows actually spit
out that screen where you must manually put in the user name and password.
What triggers that, and where do I control it?
Thanks

 

[Miha Pihler]

What you must do for user to be able to connect to a remote folder is to
share this folder. Beyond that you can't really control it.

If you have all your PCs in same Workgroup and let say you have PCa and PCb
in this network. If you want to grant access to user on PCb to folders on
PCa, you must:
* create a username and a password on PCa. This username and password on PCa
should be same as on PCb. This way user won't be asked to enter anything but
will be granted access
* give user rights on NTFS and Share to access files and folders on PCa

If username is same and the passwords are different user on PCb will be
denied access. If username on PCa does not exist user will be asked to enter
one when he tried to access the share.

Mike