WIN98 Style Networking In XP Pro Question

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Jim Mac Millan

Hello,

I want to network in Windows XP Pro like I did when I had WIN98.

In other words I want to make a share and assign a password to it. I
then want to go to any computer in the building and access that share and
enter the password. Everything is now WINXP Pro and I am very frustrated,
and the setting of permissions for each PC is making me nuts.

Thanks In Advance For Any Advice ;-)
Jim M M
 
Jim Mac Millan said:
Hello,

I want to network in Windows XP Pro like I did when I had WIN98.

In other words I want to make a share and assign a password to it. I
then want to go to any computer in the building and access that share and
enter the password. Everything is now WINXP Pro and I am very frustrated,
and the setting of permissions for each PC is making me nuts.

Thanks In Advance For Any Advice ;-)
Jim M M
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XP is derived from the NT line of OSes, and does
not use share passwords like win9x did.

With XP you create user accounts for those you wish to
access the machine across the network, and then you add
that person to the share's Access Control List.

Details here:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm

Essentially, you are going to need to either:

Create a user account on each computer which matches the account on the
machine with the shares;

-or-

Log on as some user which is un-known to the 'server' machine, and then map
a network drive, but select the option to use a different username /
password.
 
Jim said:
Hello,

I want to network in Windows XP Pro like I did when I had WIN98.

In other words I want to make a share and assign a password to it. I
then want to go to any computer in the building and access that share and
enter the password. Everything is now WINXP Pro and I am very frustrated,
and the setting of permissions for each PC is making me nuts.

Thanks In Advance For Any Advice ;-)
Jim M M
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Sorry, but you can't. Personally, I think M$ blew it by not offering
the simple password-protected shares scheme that W9x had, but that
is how it is.
 
Ron,

Can you expand on the following comment?

"Log on as some user which is un-known to the 'server' machine, and then map
a network drive, but select the option to use a different username /
password."

I am not quite grasping what you are saying.

Thanks
Jim M M
 
The machine with the shares is the 'Server' machine.
It will have user accounts defined on it.

When you sit down at aother machine ( a 'client' machine)
and attempt to connect to shares on the 'server', then one of the following
will happen:

If the username/password you are currently logged on to the client machine
with matches a user account / password on the server machine, then you get
in.

But if the username/password you are currently logged in with does _not_
match a user account/password on the 'server' machine, then you can still
connect, but you will need to supply 'alternate credentials', that is to say
a username/password which _does_ exist on the 'server' machine.
 
Ron,

Thanks for the feedback. It has given me a better understanding as to
why things work the way they do in XP

Jim M M
 
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