user permissions in peer to peer / VPN

[HG]

Hi,



I have connected two W2K workstations peer to peer and want to connect a XP
workstation remote via VPN. The problem is, how to grant the popper user
permissions in such an environment?



Lets say "Peter" has an user account on workstations #1 and "John" has an
user account on workstation #2 and Peter wants to grand John permissions
drive C, from where he get Johns User account to grand this permission?
There is no domain server.



So far, I was not able to let the path to the (local) user account
information's point to a remote drive.



What seems to work under some circumstances is to clone the remote users
into local accounts, with the same user name and password. But even though
it may work, I feel a little bit uneasy with auch a solution, because I don'
t rally understand what I'm doing.



"Peter" on workstation #1 with local account on workstation #1 shouldn't be
the same user as "Peter" on workstation #2 with a local account there. No
permissions *should* work for both of them. Definitely the crypto API thinks
like this, Peter#1 will not be able to read in Peter#2's EFS




Do I really need to set up a domain server just for the user permissions?



thanx in advance

Hagen

 

[Phillip Windell]

Create identical accounts/passwords on every machine. The VPN is
irrelevant,...it doesn't matter if you are using a VPN or not.