Windows XP User Rights

[Patrick Dunford]

I want to share a CD ROM Drive and specify which users can have access
to it.

The computer is joined to a domain so I go to USer Accounts and add a
local user called X using the button to add a local user (because the
user is not part of the domain that this machine is joined to). I make
them a Power User.

I go to the CD ROM drive, right click, sharing and security, enter share
name cdrom, click Permissions button, specify that user X will have
access. Give them Full Control.

I then try to get access to the CDROM from another computer, running
Windows 98, which is not joined to the domain. Try logging on as X with
their password. No go. Asked for a password to access the CDROM, put the
password in, told "Incorrect Password". (The dialog box that appears is
the peer to peer one, with only a password field, not the domain access
one for both username and password)

The only way I can get access to the CDROM drive is to log onto the
Windows 98 machine using the administrator username and password of the
XP machine. Then, it works fine.

My understanding of peer to peer resource access in Windows XP (going
back to NT4) is that I need to have a user account on the Windows XP
machine. It doesn't need to be an administrator. So logging on as X
should give me access to the shared resource because X has a local user
account on the XP computer. But it doesn't work. Why is that?

 

[Enkidu]

I want to share a CD ROM Drive and specify which users can have access
to it.

The computer is joined to a domain so I go to USer Accounts and add a
local user called X using the button to add a local user (because the
user is not part of the domain that this machine is joined to). I make
them a Power User.

I go to the CD ROM drive, right click, sharing and security, enter share
name cdrom, click Permissions button, specify that user X will have
access. Give them Full Control.

I then try to get access to the CDROM from another computer, running
Windows 98, which is not joined to the domain. Try logging on as X with
their password. No go. Asked for a password to access the CDROM, put the
password in, told "Incorrect Password". (The dialog box that appears is
the peer to peer one, with only a password field, not the domain access
one for both username and password)

The only way I can get access to the CDROM drive is to log onto the
Windows 98 machine using the administrator username and password of the
XP machine. Then, it works fine.

My understanding of peer to peer resource access in Windows XP (going
back to NT4) is that I need to have a user account on the Windows XP
machine. It doesn't need to be an administrator. So logging on as X
should give me access to the shared resource because X has a local user
account on the XP computer. But it doesn't work. Why is that?

When prompted, have you tried giving the user as <machine name>\<user
name>??? eg "honeybee\cliffp".....

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Patrick Dunford]

When prompted, have you tried giving the user as <machine name>\<user
name>??? eg "honeybee\cliffp".....

It only asks for a password, not a username

 

[a]

I want to share a CD ROM Drive and specify which users can have access
to it.

The computer is joined to a domain so I go to USer Accounts and add a
local user called X using the button to add a local user (because the
user is not part of the domain that this machine is joined to). I make
them a Power User.

I go to the CD ROM drive, right click, sharing and security, enter share
name cdrom, click Permissions button, specify that user X will have
access. Give them Full Control.

I then try to get access to the CDROM from another computer, running
Windows 98, which is not joined to the domain. Try logging on as X with
their password. No go. Asked for a password to access the CDROM, put the
password in, told "Incorrect Password". (The dialog box that appears is
the peer to peer one, with only a password field, not the domain access
one for both username and password)

The only way I can get access to the CDROM drive is to log onto the
Windows 98 machine using the administrator username and password of the
XP machine. Then, it works fine.

My understanding of peer to peer resource access in Windows XP (going
back to NT4) is that I need to have a user account on the Windows XP
machine. It doesn't need to be an administrator. So logging on as X
should give me access to the shared resource because X has a local user
account on the XP computer. But it doesn't work. Why is that?

Have you checked out the local security policy on the Windows XP
machine? There is an option to allow/block access to devices such as
CDROMS Local Policies -> Security Options. Domain settingscould be
overiding these.

 

[Porkster]

It only asks for a password, not a username

Maybe you need to change your win98 pc from SHARE to USER.
Then log off and logon again on the windows98 box.


Paul

 

[Patrick Dunford]

Maybe you need to change your win98 pc from SHARE to USER.
Then log off and logon again on the windows98 box.

We can browse CDROMs on other XP machines just not this one.