Restricting file access xp pro and peer to peer network

[Mark Ritchie]

Hi there,

ONe of my clients has a small network of about 10 computers. All the
computers have various os's mostly xp home and xp pro.

They only use a printer over tcp ip, that's working fine. They didn't
want to share any files until recently.

Here is the catch. They recently hired another girl to help out with
accounting. What they want to do is share the accounting program
directory between the accounting machine and the assistant machine.

I disabled simple file sharing as that would either give everyone
access or nobody access(it's very important that only these two
machines can access this directory)

I then created a user account on the machine where the data is locally
the same as the user account on the remote machine. I then shared the
directory giving access to only the two people who need it, but I
can't seem to get the right permissions to let "robin" into "carol"'s
machine.

on carol's machine(the main machine) I noticed the the usernames are
ACCOUNTING/carol and ACCOUNTING/robin I'm assuming that robin can't
access the folder because her network user is really ASSISTANT/robin.

My question is, other then bringing in a real server based system is
there a way to SECURLY share this directory? What am I missing here?
I tried to manually add user ASSISTANT/robin to the ACCOUNTING
machine, but it wouldn't let me add it.

Thanks!

Mark

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I then created a user account on the machine where the data is locally
the same as the user account on the remote machine. I then shared the
directory giving access to only the two people who need it, but I
can't seem to get the right permissions to let "robin" into "carol"'s
machine.

Mark,

you need the permission in two different places, once for the
share (a button on the share dialog box), and once for the
folders and files, all of them, not just the main folder.

on carol's machine(the main machine) I noticed the the usernames are
ACCOUNTING/carol and ACCOUNTING/robin I'm assuming that robin can't
access the folder because her network user is really ASSISTANT/robin.

My question is, other then bringing in a real server based system is
there a way to SECURLY share this directory? What am I missing here?
I tried to manually add user ASSISTANT/robin to the ACCOUNTING
machine, but it wouldn't let me add it.

This is normal for a local account. It should be enough to have
an account for the user name robin. The password has to be the
same as well on both machines.

Hans-Georg