Can w2k server 'take over' permissions of shares on other systems?

[Jason_]

Here's a bit of a mess I've been asked to 'clean up' for a client and
I'm kind of stuck at what to do.

Its a small office with w2k server running with_out_ AD as only a
basic 'central' file server that allows VPN/FTP and a very basic
intranet setup.

Anyway, there are 12 other systems. Some are loaded with extra hard
drives for much needed extra storage (all running through a DFS setup
on the w2k server) - basically everyone runs as 'administrator' (yes,
I know - yikes!) and there are no problems.

Anyway... the client wants private FTP areas for each staff member on
this one drive that is, of course, in a different machine other than
the server (the server is at its capacity for drives).

Without swapping drives around - can the w2k server take over
permissions of this drive from the other machine (w2k) so the w2k
server can handle user security instead of access permissions on all
of the computers that are sharing drives?

Hopefully that all makes sense....


Any advice would be appreciated!

 

[Guest]

I don't believe there is a direct method of doing what you're asking. The users can share their folders and the server could connect to their shares, but it can't re-share a shared folder or a printer so it can't manage them. Having AD wouldn't help in this regard.

The common way of handling this is to move the folders from the user's local machines up to the server and then sharing them from there.

If the users don't want to give up their local files, they can be copied to the server periodically or maybe sync'd somehow (automagically, via script, or manually) - but security administration and file versioning of is really messy.