microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

Thanks for the extra links and for all your help.
I'll end this thread here and do some reading.
If I have any specific questions, I'll re-post.

Mike


"Malke" wrote:

> Mike wrote:
>
> > Malke,
> >
> > Thanks again for the information. I think I'm beginning to understand how
> > to set this up.
> >
> > Based on your reply I would ask, is it a bad thing to have it so that
> > another user would have to "login" to my machine? I find having one
> > account to setup and maintain rather appealing and I could just give out
> > that user name and password to those I want to be able to access my
> > folder.
> >
> > Would this work, or am I still missing something?
>
> The answer all depends on whether this your computers are in an office
> and/or what your need for security is. Only you know this. As far as having
> only one user account to maintain, if you create matching user accounts you
> don't even ever have to log into the extra ones so no particular
> maintenance is necessary.
>
> Perhaps it would be helpful for you to do some reading about networks rather
> than have this "conversation" in a newsgroup. I'm happy to answer specific
> questions of course, but you may find it more time-efficient to look at
> these links.
>
> http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm (Home)
> http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm (Pro)
> http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm
> http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/myths.htm
> http://www.howtonetworking.com/default.htm
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> Don't Panic!
>