Administering home network

[elfpark]

I have networked four computers at home through the
network wizard. What I need to know is how to I become
the administrator and have full permissions. I have
tried to access a couple of folders and do not have admn
rights. How do I get rights on a home network that I set
up?

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

If these are NT / W2k / XP machines, then when outside of=20
a domain each machine manages its own accounts.
IOW there is no shared set of accounts without a domain.
One simple approach that can provide both convenience=20
and vulnerability is to define on each machine an account=20
that has the same name and password.

Note that an admin account does not automatically have=20
access to everything. Access is controlled by permissions,=20
and admins do not necessarily have permissions granted=20
to them everywhere - for example, a user account's private=20
storage is (of course) private to it.
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Roger=20

"elfpark" > wrote in message =
...
> I have networked four computers at home through the=20
> network wizard. What I need to know is how to I become=20
> the administrator and have full permissions. I have=20
> tried to access a couple of folders and do not have admn=20
> rights. How do I get rights on a home network that I set=20
> up?