Bob Horton
December 17th 03, 09:26 PM
I admit I am a newbie when it comes to permissions paradigm, versus the old
password paradigm for sharing files across a network. Here's my problem: I
am running 6 XP Pro NTFS machines behind a Linksys 8 port router using DHCP.
I would like to use one of the machines basically to back-up documents from
the other machines, but I only want the "owner" of the files to be able to
access them. IOW, I would create a directory called something like "Bob
backup" on the machine where I want to do the backups, but only the user
that "owns" the files (from the other machine) should be able to access
them. I could have sworn that when I used ICS to share the connection, I
could turn off simple file sharing, then set up allow access to the files,
then search the network for the machine and user I wanted to allow access
to, set up the rules, and be done with (or else that whole scenario was a
bad flashback :) ). Anyway, when I try to do it know, the machine that I
want to "host" the backups only shows itself, not the rest of the network,
to choose from when setting permissions. I am logged on to the host machine
as an administrator, but I can't get it to let me see, let alone set
permissions, for users on other machines. All machines are on the same
workgroup, and all can share files file with simple fire sharing, but this
doesn't give me the level of security I'd like. BTW, the machine is
sometimes used as a workstation, otherwise I'd just password protect the
log-in and hide it in a closet!
TIA for any suggestions!
Bob Horton
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password paradigm for sharing files across a network. Here's my problem: I
am running 6 XP Pro NTFS machines behind a Linksys 8 port router using DHCP.
I would like to use one of the machines basically to back-up documents from
the other machines, but I only want the "owner" of the files to be able to
access them. IOW, I would create a directory called something like "Bob
backup" on the machine where I want to do the backups, but only the user
that "owns" the files (from the other machine) should be able to access
them. I could have sworn that when I used ICS to share the connection, I
could turn off simple file sharing, then set up allow access to the files,
then search the network for the machine and user I wanted to allow access
to, set up the rules, and be done with (or else that whole scenario was a
bad flashback :) ). Anyway, when I try to do it know, the machine that I
want to "host" the backups only shows itself, not the rest of the network,
to choose from when setting permissions. I am logged on to the host machine
as an administrator, but I can't get it to let me see, let alone set
permissions, for users on other machines. All machines are on the same
workgroup, and all can share files file with simple fire sharing, but this
doesn't give me the level of security I'd like. BTW, the machine is
sometimes used as a workstation, otherwise I'd just password protect the
log-in and hide it in a closet!
TIA for any suggestions!
Bob Horton
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