security of a network

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I am not a network admin by any strech. I work for a small software
company(about 100 employes) and during our busy season we hire on temps to
help with the over flow. Well some of these temps take it apon themselves to
feel free about logging onto other peoples machines. Now my question is when
they log on they are loging on to the network through my machine right? If
so they have total access to my hard drive? If so is there a way to prevent
this from happening like a password for my local machine?

Thanks

Chris
 
Chris43 said:
I am not a network admin by any strech. I work for a small software
company(about 100 employes) and during our busy season we hire on temps to
help with the over flow. Well some of these temps take it apon themselves to
feel free about logging onto other peoples machines. Now my question is when
they log on they are loging on to the network through my machine right? If
so they have total access to my hard drive? If so is there a way to prevent
this from happening like a password for my local machine?

Thanks

Chris
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You don't say what OS you have on the machine, if it's 98 or ME then there
is not a great deal you can do.

However if its 2K or NT then you can set rights to the drive dependant on
which user logs on, as you don't state
your ability level its difficult for anyone in the group to point you in the
right direction.

Post back and give us an honest opinion of your tech ability on a scale of
1-10 and what OS's are on the machine
and then we can start giving you the advice you need.

Jud
 
The os is win2k

I am fluent in in os but when you say rights are you talking about in the
user profile? because the user that loged on does not have a profile? But I
guess they can still log on the network through my machine?

Chris
 
Chris43 said:
The os is win2k

I am fluent in in os but when you say rights are you talking about in the
user profile? because the user that loged on does not have a profile? But I
guess they can still log on the network through my machine?

Chris
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Does the user log on through a domain controller, if so then you can refuse
access to folders and drives by using a GPO.
If however there is no domain controller and the user logs on as local user
with his or her own user name and password , then
set the rights on the C drive or any folders that you dont want them access
to.

As for not having a profile, this seems unlikely as any user that is granted
rights to any machine running 2K will have a profile.

Again post back stating how your network is set up, with a domain controller
or without, what folders you want to lock them out
of, if the user is set with admin rights or as a user.

If you want you can email me direct I will pass my MSN Messenger address if
you like

judslat at ntlworld dot com
 
Yes I would like to talk through messenger!

I left work early friday I get in today and some one had turned on my
machine and loged in under their username and password I was just recently
informed that they were only surfing the net but they did it through my
machine. They do not have a user profile on my machine. I guess I am not
sure where to locate the rights, is it sharing?

I log on through what looks like a normal nt log on screen not sure if it's
a domain controller or not but I do know that they do not have a profile on
this machine and I thought in nt you could not log onto a machine unles you
have a profile for that machine or know the user pass for that machine but
they used their own on my machine to surf the net with?

Chris
 
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