Sharing permissions

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When sharing a folder, there is an option to set Sharing permissions.
If I want no restrictions as to who might access this folder, would
"Everyone" do the job?
 
Yes but that is certainly wide open. If you are in a Domain environment you
could use Authenticated Users and that will only allow members of your
domain or people who actually authenticate. Also Everyone Full Control is
the default once you 'share' a folder......
 
Thanks, Scott,
I am talking about home network of three w2k Pro so no domain server is
there.
Two machines are on WG and the third - my office laptop - is confidured for
Domain in the offfice

For the moment accessing files between the three computers is inconsistent
and I wanted to know if wrong Sharing Permissions might contribute to this
problem. From your comments I conclude that Everyone removes all
restrictions, and therefore the problem is elsewhere
 
well sort of.....it can depend on the workgroup name if your trying to
browse through the network. If your getting access denied try making an
account on the machine with the share that uses the same username and
password from your work laptop. Do you have any firewalls running that may
be blocking the share? What kind of errors do you get?
 
I am getting
"//computerName/folderName
the specified network name is no longer available"

or "Unexpected network error"

When I am trying to access the printer properties: "printer is not
accessable"

To avoid possible complications with different logins, the two home
computers have only Administrator login with the same pw as the
Administrator login on the laptop. On the laptop I also use Administrator
login when connecting to the home network. So all the three computers are
logged in as Administrator with the same pw
 
Yes, but on the laptop is it a local administrator account or a domain
account? Big Difference! Also, you need to specify workstation only when
you login to the laptop, or use the dropdown to select the workstation name
rather than the domain.
 
On this w2kPro I have two login options:
1. Administrator
"Log in to" field shows this computer name

I reckon this is a local administrator account, is not it?

2. Usrname
"Log in to" field shows the name of a domain

In the home network we are discussing here, I always login as Administrator
 
That is correct, you are using a local administrator account, so that is
good. And if you have the same account AND password on the other machines,
your accounts are correct.
Now, you need to clarify how your permissions are setup. Remember, there
are SHARE permissions and NTFS permissions and the two can easily come in
conflict, so you need to know about both of them.
If you are trying to access a printer from the laptop, make sure it is
shared to the administrator account (or administrators group, which is the
better way to do it). Also, check your NTFS permissions and make sure
administrators have full access to the system partition of the computer the
printer is connected to. (if it cannot spool to the drive, it might not
print)

hope this helps
 
If you are trying to access a printer from the laptop, make sure it is
shared to the administrator account (or administrators group, which is the
better way to do it).
Click to expand...

How do I do that?
In the printer's properties there is the only one option "share as" and
there is no way to set to whom the printer is shared
 
If you have an ntfs partition, you will see a security tab on the properties
of every file, folder, printer. If you don't use ntfs (you should), then
you will not see a security tab and you don't need to worry about it. In my
previous post, I was talking about ntfs permissions on the printer, not the
share permissions, which as you found out are not configurable for the
printer properties.
 
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