XP Home sharing and security

[adl]

I'm trying to help a friend who has a set of XP Pro
systems in a domain with a Win2003 SBS Server. This
domain (companyname.net) and the PCs in it happen to be on
the same LAN in their office as his wife's business, which
only has 2 PCs, both running XP Home (no domain, just the
workgroup "office"). They need to share a folder between
the 2 PCs running XP Home, but they want to make sure the
share can not be accessed from the other systems that are
part of the companyname.net domain. I know you can boot
the XP Home system in Safe Mode, and gain access to the
full security settings. The problem is, I don't know what
to add or change to make sure only the 2 systems in the XP
Home Workgroup can see the shares, and deny access to the
systems in the companyname.net domain. If I
remove "everyone", it denies access to the domain PCs, but
also denies access to the other XP Home PC. Suggestions?

 

[Guest]

Hi,

In the box where you remove the "Everyone" add the administrator and the
concerned user to whom you want to grant access and then remove "Everyone"

This will give access only to that users as well as administrators.

Regards
M. Rajesh
..Net and Windows Shell MVP
www.winxpsolution.com

 

[adl]

I couldn't figure out how to add the "concerned
user" ... when I try to add, it gives me a "select
users, computers or groups" dialog box, but I can't
figure out what to enter in the "object name" field to
specify the user from the other WinXP Home PC. Anything I
put in there gets rejected as "not valid".