Sharing the C:drive to another user

[Chavito21]

Hi everyone,

I am having a problem trying to share the C:drive from one user to another. When I open the share option, I do not see al the user on my network it only shows like Administrator, user, everyone etc. But I only one to share this user to only one other user.

Any suggestions woulb be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Chavito21]

I forgot to mention that both PC are running XP pro.

 

[bcastner]

You need to add the user to your machine.
Use Control Panel, Users and Groups, and add the username to your workstation.

 

[Chavito21]

Bcastner,

I want to share the C:drive on my network. So user X and oly X can open my C:drive through the network.

So Do I still need to add the other user on my PC?

 

[Jontmke]

Sure, unless you have a domain, the computer has to know who that user is. So, any access has to be controlled somehow. On a standalone PC that is in the User settings in control panel.


Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

 

[Chavito21]

Jon,

I am so lost with XP..I am sorry if I am been too slow here.

I have a domain. On Windows 2000 pro I can go to share my C: drive and give permission but I get a list of all the user on that domain and give permission to only the user I want to share my drive with. I do not get that list on XP, well I don't knonw how to get that list from WinXP.

When I try to share the c:drive It seems like I should change the location to the domain but I only get the computer name and no option to change it.

Am I barking on the wrong tree?

 

[smah]

Is the XP machine a member of the Domain?

 

[CluelessJon]

1. Click Start, and then click My Computer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options, and then click the View tab.
3. In the Advanced Settings section, clear the "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)" check box.
4. Click OK.



Regards

Jonno BrainDump Specialist
MCSE(NT) MCSA(2k) CCNA

 

[Chavito21]

Yes on the domain I have 3 XPpro PCs and the rest are 2000 pro and 4 98se

 

[Chavito21]

Jonno,

I just tried wht you recommend and I can't still see the users list when i try to give permission.
Let me tell you what I am doing; Again all user are on a domain "OFFICElocal" Dennis(President of the Company) and Tena(assistant) are using XP pro. Tena has documents that need to share only with the Dennis. But when i go to Tena's Pc and try to share her C:drive I can't see anyone on the server. When they were using Windows 2000 It was really easy I just went to My COmputer, right click on C: drive, Choose Sharing... click on share c: , click on Permissions, click on ADD a screen Select users,computer and groups as title and witn an option of Looking in: the PCname or the Domain name, If I pick the domain name it would give me the all the computer(users) and groups on the server. So I can pick Dennis(computer name) and be tha onlyone that can access Tenas c:drive.

I can't get that list from XP.

 

[CluelessJon]

But you can get to the SECURITY TAB on the Disk Properties ?

Regards

Jonno BrainDump Specialist
MCSE(NT) MCSA(2k) CCNA

 

[Jontmke]

Could it be Local rights? Maybe you have to be admin to do this?

Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

 

[Chavito21]

Yes I can get to the Security tab on the disk properties.

 

[321]

Is your DNS Settings corrects on the XP Machine? put the ip address of WIn2000 Server as the "Prefferd DNS Server" on the XP Client TCP/IP Properties.


MK

 

[pBucket]

I had the same problem using xp home. I had to install the netbeui protocol so both computers could see each other. The netbeui protocol and instructions should be on you win xp disk in the valueadd/msft/net/netbeui folder.

Best of Luck.

 

[bcastner]

For security reaons you are not going to see an enumeration of domain username entries without being a member of Domain Administration.

Remember you are speaking about local shares. Add the users as locally authorized users. But the real distinction is that you are attempting to apply Domain principles on what are essentially local NSFT security objects.

These are not managed by the DC. They are managed by the owner of the NSFT drive and folders.

Add the local users to the local workstation, and set the appropriate NSFT permissions.