Need Help In Sharing Files/Folders

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Jeri Jo Thomas

Hello, I hope this is the right ng to ask for help.

I am a very new, seat-of-the-pants "admin" trying to cause two programs
to work in the users log-in as well as, but instead of, the
administrators log-in.

A more or less stand-alone Win2000 Professional computer; it's
networked to a T-1 line and printers, but not to other computers.
(Computers Near Me just shows...me. ) We'll call it BOB2.

There are 2 programs, I.E. and FlightStar, that work fine under XX
(that's me; named changed, etc.)

Logging onto GRAMMA (everyone else; one pwd only) IE will not connect
to the Internet, even after having just come from being logged on to XX
and being on-line, and FlightStar works as if it's a totally separate
install from XX. (With this particular software under XX there is
"time" left, under GRAMMA the "time" has been used up. I realize that
this may also need to be discussed with the software creators, but in
the mean time,)

I copied a 5-page instructional from Microsoft on how to share
files/folders, set permissions, map from network drive, etc., and
followed the instructions until in the end I did see the folder held in
the hand, and the shared drive icon (the one with the little twisty on
the bottom).

There was no change under GRAMMA to either I.E. or FlightStar as
indicated above.

Should I have just shared the file and not the whole folder? Was it
necessary to go through all the way to the shared drive since this is
all on one drive? There is a BOB1 computer that I am not the admin of,
but if I look in Computers Near Me there it may well show BOB2 among
others. Should I have done this from that computer? (It has FlightStar
installed too, but with it's own, unrelated problems.) I don't know the
password for the default administrator on either computer, if there is
one, but I haven't really tried it on BOB1.

I just read that users shouldn't be allowed to surf the net, etc., from
the admin's pwd and that's why I'd like to set it up for the users to
use these two programs under their "own" section. Plus this all came
about from a guy on the midnight shift adding software that is specific
to him and one day causing just the worst spyware mess. This was
rectified by me inadvertently denying permission to everything and
effectively killing the machine. (So I don't know who's worse, him or
me, but they did turn around and make me the admin.)

Finally, the how-to I copied from Microsoft was Knowledge Base Article
#301281.

I hope someone can help me, or point me in the direction to find help.

Thank you.
 
Permissions for shares affect only users try to connect to that share from another
computer on the network. Share permissions have no effect on users logging on to the
computer where the shares exist. However "ntfs" permissions apply to users that logon
to a computer locally and network users. Ntfs permissions require that ntfs file
system is used on the drive partition and are accessible by selecting
folder/properties - security. The link below explains ntfs permissions.

http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/592/toc.html

In a default installation of Windows 2000, regular users have much more restrictive
ntfs permissions than administrators that have full control permissions to all
folders. Regular users are usually restricted to read/list/execute [the drive/root
folder may have excessive permissions for users/everyone that you may want to change]
which allows them to run most well designed applications and they can save files they
create in the My Documents folder in their user profile where they will normally have
full control permissions. The best solution is to not allow regular users to be in
the local administrators group which will prevent them from having excessive
permissions and not allow them to access the internet as an administrator. There are
also basic security steps you can take that can greatly improve the security of your
network as shown in the link below. You can also use Group Policy [gpedit.msc] to
enforce basic Internet Explorer security settings such as Web Content Zones and
restricting user access to Internet Explorer Control Panel settings to greatly reduce
risk from parasites. Additionally a firewall that can block all outbound access other
than authorized ports/protocols/IP addresses/maybe URL's can prevent users from using
a lot of unauthorized internet applications such as chat programs and file swapping
programs like kazaa that can bring worms and viruses. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/gtm/securityguidance/hub.mspx
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm -- Internet Explorer security
recommendations.
 
From the trenches *[email protected]* sent a runner with
this important missive...

Q:Permissions for shares affect only users try to connect to that share from another
Q:computer on the network. Share permissions have no effect on users logging on to the
Q:computer where the shares exist. However "ntfs" permissions apply to users that logon
Q:to a computer locally and network users. Ntfs permissions require that ntfs file
Q:system is used on the drive partition and are accessible by selecting
Q:folder/properties - security. The link below explains ntfs permissions.
Q:
Steven, thank you so much for answering this tonight as I definitely
need it for tomorrow. Wish me luck.
 
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