Network Question
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 1:56 pm
Here is the setup.
My PC in the office is running as the "server" with all the files dumped on it (really slows the pc I know)
O/S: Win Xp Pro
Clients:
2x Win98SE
1x Win XP Pro
I've rig the 3 clients so that they can see only the Shared folder on my XP rig and nothing else. Were as I can see the hole content of the 2 98 rigs from any of the Pc's with the correct password and only the shared folder on the other XP rig (with no password).
This I would like to change. Currently if I have files I want to be able to access away from my desktop I need to dump it in the shared folder so that everyone can see it.
I'd like to be able to put some sort of password on the folder so that only I can access it with the password and not be shared over the network to the other users without it.
The same goes with the XP client I only can access the shared folder of. I'd like to be able to access the hole HDD with the use of a password.
So is this possible and if so how do I do this.
An internet connection isn't a real factor in this setup because only the one 98 rig has a 56k modem and is only used when needed. So there is no perminent connection to the Internet.
Basicly it is comming down to the fact that I don't want others to be able to access the private files(these are work related files ok) on my PC that I sometimes need to access from another machine. As well the password must not be stored for the session like the password I currently use to share the 98 HDD's that only needs to entered once to access the machine.
Simply put:
I (Adminstrator
) want to have full access to all the PC's content with a requiered password every time I access it and closes it again.
Clients access to be limited to only the files that they need to have (no full access)
Thanks in advance.
My PC in the office is running as the "server" with all the files dumped on it (really slows the pc I know)
O/S: Win Xp Pro
Clients:
2x Win98SE
1x Win XP Pro
I've rig the 3 clients so that they can see only the Shared folder on my XP rig and nothing else. Were as I can see the hole content of the 2 98 rigs from any of the Pc's with the correct password and only the shared folder on the other XP rig (with no password).
This I would like to change. Currently if I have files I want to be able to access away from my desktop I need to dump it in the shared folder so that everyone can see it.
I'd like to be able to put some sort of password on the folder so that only I can access it with the password and not be shared over the network to the other users without it.
The same goes with the XP client I only can access the shared folder of. I'd like to be able to access the hole HDD with the use of a password.
So is this possible and if so how do I do this.
An internet connection isn't a real factor in this setup because only the one 98 rig has a 56k modem and is only used when needed. So there is no perminent connection to the Internet.
Basicly it is comming down to the fact that I don't want others to be able to access the private files(these are work related files ok) on my PC that I sometimes need to access from another machine. As well the password must not be stored for the session like the password I currently use to share the 98 HDD's that only needs to entered once to access the machine.
Simply put:
I (Adminstrator
) want to have full access to all the PC's content with a requiered password every time I access it and closes it again.Clients access to be limited to only the files that they need to have (no full access)
Thanks in advance.