permissions on winxp 1

[mackaymonkey]

Hi all... I am just getting around to getting my other systems networked properly at home. I have a problem though... I have a drive on one PC that I only want to permit myself to view from my other PC. however, I can't get it to work unless i mark the drive viewable to everyone. obviously, this negates the point of the permission. I don't have a domain going.

 

[jgean]

You can remove the EVERYONE from the permission box and just add yourself to it. You will need a local account on the PC unless you are on a network where you authenicate to a server. If you remove everyone and add yourself, only you will be able, but it will ask you for a login/password if the local account on the pc is different than the one you are using.

Hope this helps

 

[bcastner]

You can gain tremendous flexibility in permissions on a drive by Disabling "Use Simple File Sharing - recommended" in Folder Options, and converting the drive to NTFS.

This would allow you granularity in your permissions, so that you can control at the folder level who has access and what sorts of access are permitted. You could allow someone, for example, not to be able to delete files in a certain folder.

 

[mackaymonkey]

Thanks for the advice guys. I had all of that in place, but I don't know what I was doing wrong... it was really late, so I was probably half-asleep. I got it right this morning though.

-Nick