Workgroup password help

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Ryan Kelly

I am currently a member of a workgroup that is within a
home network. There are also other workgroups that are
one the same network space. I would like to put a
password in place so that only authorized people will be
able to access my files through my workgroup portal.
What is the easiest way to do this?

Thanks!
Ryan
 
"M. Rajesh" said:
Hi,

Please read the page to understand what a workgroup is
and the disadvantages of it.

http://www.winxpsolution.com/WorkgroupsDomains.asp

In your case you will have to do the settings
individually on every computer. There is no short cut to
administer the entire network.

Regards
M. Rajesh
www.winxpsolution.com
Click to expand...

The description of a workgroup on that web page only applies to XP
Professional, and only when "simple file sharing" is disabled. By
default, "simple file sharing" is enabled in XP Professional.

In XP Home Edition, there's no such thing as a local security
database, and there's no need to maintain matching user accounts on
all computers.

Ryan, workgroups provide no security whatsoever in a Windows network,
and there's no such thing as a password for a workgroup.

If you have XP Professional, you can disable "simple file sharing" and
create access control lists for shared disks and folders. This web
page has details:

Windows XP Professional File Sharing
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm

If you have XP Home Edition, you can define a password for the "Guest"
account. When other people try to access your computer, they'll be
prompted to enter the password:

a. Click Start | Run.
b. Type "control userpasswords2" in the box and click OK.
c. Under "Users for this computer", click Guest.
d. Click Reset Password, enter a password, and click OK.
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