Restrict Workgroup Shares

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I have a home workgroup setup with one XP Pro client and two 2000Pro
clients. I'm trying to allow the XP client to act as a shared drive for the
2000's, while at the same time allowing 2000-A to access a personal backup
share while keeping 2000-B from being able to access the same share.

I see where using NTFS to allow users to access drives seems to be the way
to go, but I can only get local PC users to show up which blocks both 2000s.
If I add the USERS group, I let them both in.

Could someone point me at a FAQ that would tell me how do what I'm wanting
to do? (the old 98 password on a folder use to do the trick, but I don't
think you can enable that in XP).

Is there a way to add other PC user to the users on XP (i.e. \\XP1\user1 &
\\2000-A\user2)?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You are heading in the right direction. You can create local user accounts on any W2K
or XP Pro computer and then restrict those users to access to ntfs and share
permissions. You also want to disable simple file sharing on the XP Pro computer as
shown in the link below.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307874

To create local groups use " lusrmgr.msc " in the run box and go to users where you
can right click and select add to create new users. You also want to leave the guest
account disabled or anyone can access network shares that have everyone permissions
for both share and ntfs permissions. Create user accounts that match the
logon/password that users use to logon to the other computers on your network. --
Steve

 

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Thanks Steve. After I went through and reset all the account passwords so I
knew they were the same on each PC, everything came together.

I appreciate the help.
Mike