K
Kathy
If someone could help me with or lead me in the right
direction with my problem, I will greatly appreciate
it.... I'm in the process of learning about administration
on xp and 2k, so I don't a great deal about it.
Here is the situation. At work and we have a peer to peer
set up with separate work groups. There are ~50 machines
connected.. 96% of them are windows 98se, 3% are windows
xp and 1 % is ME. They want use an XP computer as a mini
server to share one file out with a select number having
read/write access and the rest having read only access.
I'm having a few different issues. One is getting win98
machines to be able to log into this machine to access the
file. I get the usual IPC$ and password prompt; so I then
enable guest and they are able to log in. (I have set them
up as users). Okay.. great.. they can see the file.. read
only. I then go over to an XP machine to check to see if
it can see the file, it works, I had set them up as a user
and gave them modify, read, write and execute permissions.
The file comes up as "read only". I try setting them up as
administrator, the file still comes up as read only. I
create a new file, put it in the folder and try to access
that, it also comes up as read only. The properties of the
file are not read-only, but the folder property is. I've
unchecked the box, but to no avail has it helped. Maybe
I'm setting up the users and groups improperly; this is my
first time using file sharing on XP. I would think it
would be along the same lines as 2k, but that doesn't seem
to be the case, at least not for me today.
I thought maybe there would be a way to set up user A and
user b, create groups called share and write, put user A
into share and user b into write, and then add them to the
permissions and security of the folder and have them
access the folder with those specific logins. I wanted to
do this so that I could avoid having to add each machine
on the network as a user and then adding them into the
permissions and security. (I tried both of these options
and it still wouldn't work properly.)
Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
direction with my problem, I will greatly appreciate
it.... I'm in the process of learning about administration
on xp and 2k, so I don't a great deal about it.
Here is the situation. At work and we have a peer to peer
set up with separate work groups. There are ~50 machines
connected.. 96% of them are windows 98se, 3% are windows
xp and 1 % is ME. They want use an XP computer as a mini
server to share one file out with a select number having
read/write access and the rest having read only access.
I'm having a few different issues. One is getting win98
machines to be able to log into this machine to access the
file. I get the usual IPC$ and password prompt; so I then
enable guest and they are able to log in. (I have set them
up as users). Okay.. great.. they can see the file.. read
only. I then go over to an XP machine to check to see if
it can see the file, it works, I had set them up as a user
and gave them modify, read, write and execute permissions.
The file comes up as "read only". I try setting them up as
administrator, the file still comes up as read only. I
create a new file, put it in the folder and try to access
that, it also comes up as read only. The properties of the
file are not read-only, but the folder property is. I've
unchecked the box, but to no avail has it helped. Maybe
I'm setting up the users and groups improperly; this is my
first time using file sharing on XP. I would think it
would be along the same lines as 2k, but that doesn't seem
to be the case, at least not for me today.
I thought maybe there would be a way to set up user A and
user b, create groups called share and write, put user A
into share and user b into write, and then add them to the
permissions and security of the folder and have them
access the folder with those specific logins. I wanted to
do this so that I could avoid having to add each machine
on the network as a user and then adding them into the
permissions and security. (I tried both of these options
and it still wouldn't work properly.)
Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?