Revoke an auto login and other stories

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Al Martino

Question 1) I am a very novice defacto administrator of a small 4 pc WinXP
pro network. I've disabled simpplified file sharing across the network. I
wish to, for example, give (limited) User2 on PC2 access to let's say
FolderX on PC1. I've shared FolderX but have not set permissions.

I've fiddled on PC2 logged in as User2. I've drilled through the network in
Windows Explorer, and in attempting to access PC1 it has asked me to login
with a username and password. I've used an administrator account to do so,
and ticked remember password (stupidly!), and now User2 has permanent
access to all of PC1. How can I revoke this login?

Question 2) What I just cannot understand is how to set permissions for
other users accross the network to access certain folders only. Again, use
the above model. I am logged in with admin rights as User1 on PC1. I'm
looking at Sharing & Security on FolderX. I'm thinking to delete permissions
for Everyone and then add specific permissions for say User2. However the
only location I can choose from is the local PC. In other words, I could
easily set permissions for different users on PC1 but not across the
network. What am I doing wrong? I belive I need to set permissions under
both the Sharing and Security tabs.

What I need is a simple step by step guise to this stuff. Thanks heaps
James.
 
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Guest

A useful resource:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/

Best approach here is to create a user-account on the 'server' computer
under which to share the folder. Give this user a password. This acount will
never log-on, it's purely for sharing. In the share permissions, add just
this user, and remove "Everyone"

Then on the client(s) add a batch-file or shortcut:

NET USE H: \\SERVERNAME\SHARENAME /USER:USERNAME

This will create drive H: mapped to the share. If you just want to access it
from Net work Places with no driveletter, then omit the H:

You can optionally add the password to the commandline, though it's more
secure if you don't, since it's stored as plaintext.

BTW, as a general good practice, try to avoid having shares dotted-around
the network. It's much easier to manage data if it's all on one computer.
That way there's only one place to do backups, one place to worry about
permissions, and one computer that needs to be powered all the time.
 

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