Permissions in a network

[John Doe]

Ok.. I have a problem.
I have a network at home including three computers A B and C.
Computer A shares a lot of files on the network and I want computer B to
have total and unlimited access to them. The problem is that since all
computers are in the same workgroup, not a domain computer C can see all
the files to. I want to restrict the access of files to a few on
computer C but all the info found on the net assumes that I have a
working domain. How can I solve my problem. Please help.

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

If you are using XP Professional, you can use Share/NTFS permissions to
control access based upon user credentials. If you are using XP Home, it's
pretty much an all or nothing deal - everyone either has full access or some
lesser access regardless of user account. With the XP SP2 firewall you
could completely block access from a remote machine based upon IP address,
but you can't give it limited access.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[John Doe]

If you are using XP Professional, you can use Share/NTFS permissions to
control access based upon user credentials. If you are using XP Home, it's
pretty much an all or nothing deal - everyone either has full access or some
lesser access regardless of user account. With the XP SP2 firewall you
could completely block access from a remote machine based upon IP address,
but you can't give it limited access.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

I have Xp pro... Dont use the xp firewall but fsecure client security
with integrated firewall.

 

[Bob Willard]

If you are using XP Professional, you can use Share/NTFS permissions to
control access based upon user credentials. If you are using XP Home, it's
pretty much an all or nothing deal - everyone either has full access or some
lesser access regardless of user account. With the XP SP2 firewall you
could completely block access from a remote machine based upon IP address,
but you can't give it limited access.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

Or, if you don't want to change A's OS to XP PRO, you could change it
to W9x (W98SE is the pick of that litter IMO), then assign passwords to
A's shared folders and not tell the passwords to C's users. Not very
secure, but good enough for many home LANs.