Problem setting Security for file sharing in WinXP prof. for PC's in workgroup

[j.aerssens]

L.S.

Recently I bought a new PC with WinXP professional preinstalled. The system
was configured with two partitions. The C: partition I use for system and
program files, D: partition is data. Nothing uncommon.
Since several users are using this PC and I want a very flexible and
maintenancefree setup, each user got his own XP account. In each XP account
I configured one virtual (windows 2000) machine (VMWare) for easy back-up
and restore, that can be freely used by the user of that account. Each user
has a data directory on the D: partition.
Each virtual PC accesses this data directory through a (virtual)
networkconnection between a workgroup. Therefore the data directories on the
D: partition must be set to share data.

Now my problem. Contrary to all Win2K installations I have done before,
WinXP is not configured to set permissions on shared drives/files. I need
this because I don't want the individual accounts to have access to the data
directories of the other users. I am pretty shure however that WinXP can be
configured to do so but after several hours of trying I still haven't found
the solution. Who can help me???

Thanxx

Joost Aerssens

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

To access the Security dialog for NTFS objects
in XP Pro you need to uncheck Simple sharing
at the base of the View tab of Folder Options.
Alternatively you may use a safe mode boot, which
is also the only way to access this in an unmodified
XP Home.