user acounts and permissions?

[cbrooks]

I did this all the time in NT and NT to XP but can not get
it to work on XP to XP. I set up to identical accounts on
two PC's On PC A I logon as user A. PC B I logon as admin.
On PC B as Admin, I set a folder with permission so only
User A can access a folder. From PC A as user A I try to
access the folder through the network but I do not have
permissions. Any help.... Thanks. Network is peer to
peer.

[Peter Hutchison]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:27:11 -0700, "cbrooks" >
wrote:

>I did this all the time in NT and NT to XP but can not get
>it to work on XP to XP. I set up to identical accounts on
>two PC's On PC A I logon as user A. PC B I logon as admin.
> On PC B as Admin, I set a folder with permission so only
>User A can access a folder. From PC A as user A I try to
>access the folder through the network but I do not have
>permissions. Any help.... Thanks. Network is peer to
>peer.

User accounts on NT/XP/2000 are identified by unique SID (Security
IDs) and are used to create ACLs (Access Control Lists) on NTFS
folders with permissions to access to files and folders.

Now, you create a User A on PC 1 and User A on PC 2. These accounts
are NOT the same. They are located on different SAM (Security Account
Management) databases on two different PCs. The SIDs will be different
hence the permissions problem. The accounts will be identified as
PC1\USERA and PC2\USERA.

For both users to access a folder, both users must have been given
rights to access the folder. Therefore:

C:\MyFolder
PC1\USERA granted Full Control
PC2\USERA granted Full Control

(NB: This is why Microsoft prefers Domains where the accounts are
located in One database (replicated between one or more DCs) rather
than many SAM databases over many computers.

Peter
Peter Hutchison
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