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[loschiavoj]

I have a NTWorkStation Server And a NTWorkStation Client attached to the server. On the client I only want to be able to access applications and reports on the server. I would like to do this without giving the client full administartive rights but have been unsuccessful. Any ideas?

 

[SimonDavis]

You could just make parts of the disk accessible to the client.

I have a 'public' directory on the root of my NT server, which has application and user subdirectories. You just set the appropriate permissions for those directories, nothing else is accessible.

 

[SimonDavis]

I might not have been very descriptive there. Just as a suplementary, - you might well know the following already, but just in case.

Setting the user rights - On the 'public' directory (logged in as admin) from NT Explorer right click the directory and choose the permissions tab. Set the rights either user by user (OK if you have a small workgroup) or if you have a lot of users, consider setting some groups up. You should consider whether the user will have any rights on subdirectories - probably depends on the extent to which you want users rummaging around each others files. All of these are completely customisable. NT help should give you the basics.

To give you user convenient access to the directories, it is probably more efficient to map a drive. On the users machine, find the directory in NT explorer, right click it and select map network drive. The only other practical way for the user to access the files will be through the network neighborhood - not very convenient from an application.