Security primer for XP pro/home

[James Houston]

Can anyone point me to a good overview of security settngs available in XP?
My particular problem is this: We have a work station in our office that
runs XP Pro. The rest of our workstations run XP Home. I want to share an
Access MDB that lives in a subfolder in the Program Files folder on the XP
Pro machine. I want set permissions for this DB so that only 1 user id has
remote access to it. When I try to share the file it seems as though I can
only share the entire folder, not just the individual file, and it looks as
though I can only share the file with the entire network. Any help would be
greatly appriciated.

Best

Jim

 

[Guest]

James,
Two things that might help. When you set sharing option in XP set the
permissions, remove everyone and add the individual that should have access
to the folder. You can also set up security in Access. Any good book on
Access development will describe how to make a mdb file secure. I have done
it in the past, I just don't remember the steps.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You can not share files - only folders but you can control who has access to
the share for network access. You probably will need to disable simple file
sharing first by going to Windows Explorer/tools/folder options/view and
uncheck the last option for use simple file sharing. The links below explain
how to configure access lists in more details and how share and folder/ntfs
permissions work together to restrict access from network users. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418
http://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/ntfs_and_share_permissions.shtml