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Spyro Gumas
I need help with assigning unique File Sharing
Permissions for individual Users.
We have a small office with 5 PCs running Windows XP. 3
are XP Professional and 2 are XP Home Edition. These 5
PCs are inter-networked as a WORKGROUP. We don't use a
domain and have no common serve.
We are trying to establish a shared folder environment,
and we are having some success. From any given PC, we
are able to see the shared directories of the users on
the other PCs. We are also abel to access the files
under these shared folders. This is as we would expect.
The problem comes when we try to assign unique access
rights for individual users. Our Workgroup has 5 users
(5 PCs). When I go to the PROPERTIES of a folder and
select the SHARE tab, I can enable sharing. Then I
go to the PERMISSIONS tab and try to ADD a user. When I
click LOCATIONS, the only location choice I get is the
name of the PC that I am working on. I would expect to
see the name of our WORKGROUP, or maybe all of the PCs in
our WORKGROUP, but I don't. So if instead of LOCATIONS,
I select ADVANCED, in the new dialogue box that opens up
I select FIND NOW. Then I am presented with a list of
users but this list is only the users with accounts on
the machine that I am sitting at. I still don't see the
other users in my WORKGROUP.
So, in a nutshell, I can't select users sitting at other
PCs in my WORGROUP, and if I can't select them, I can't
assign them with uniqe access rights.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Spyro gumas
Signal Labs, Inc
(703)391-9771
(e-mail address removed)
Permissions for individual Users.
We have a small office with 5 PCs running Windows XP. 3
are XP Professional and 2 are XP Home Edition. These 5
PCs are inter-networked as a WORKGROUP. We don't use a
domain and have no common serve.
We are trying to establish a shared folder environment,
and we are having some success. From any given PC, we
are able to see the shared directories of the users on
the other PCs. We are also abel to access the files
under these shared folders. This is as we would expect.
The problem comes when we try to assign unique access
rights for individual users. Our Workgroup has 5 users
(5 PCs). When I go to the PROPERTIES of a folder and
select the SHARE tab, I can enable sharing. Then I
go to the PERMISSIONS tab and try to ADD a user. When I
click LOCATIONS, the only location choice I get is the
name of the PC that I am working on. I would expect to
see the name of our WORKGROUP, or maybe all of the PCs in
our WORKGROUP, but I don't. So if instead of LOCATIONS,
I select ADVANCED, in the new dialogue box that opens up
I select FIND NOW. Then I am presented with a list of
users but this list is only the users with accounts on
the machine that I am sitting at. I still don't see the
other users in my WORKGROUP.
So, in a nutshell, I can't select users sitting at other
PCs in my WORGROUP, and if I can't select them, I can't
assign them with uniqe access rights.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Spyro gumas
Signal Labs, Inc
(703)391-9771
(e-mail address removed)