Bob Horton
December 17th 03, 09:26 PM
Ah, that should be "network" in the subject line. I often wish spell
checkers would look at that line! :)
Bob Horton
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"Bob Horton" > wrote in message
...
> 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
>
> --
>
>
>
checkers would look at that line! :)
Bob Horton
--
"Bob Horton" > wrote in message
...
> 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
>
> --
>
>
>