Workgroup Permissions

Hello All

Is it posible to set file permissions on a workgroup network and restrict everyone except for one workgroup user (who's user acount is on a differnet workgroup comuter) from accessing the folder.

When I attempt to add the user in the permissions section, I cannot find any users on other workgroup computers, only the local comuter users are shown. in other words there are no other locations available to find users, typing the name of the computer does not help.

I can create a local user with the same user name and password as the remote user and set premission that way, however this is messy, what happens if the user decied to change his password for example.

I this just the way it is in windows workgroups?

Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

Basicly there isn't much that can be done. You have to add the account to the computer to be able to set its permissions.

The only time an account isn't added directly on a computer is if you have a domain controller. In order to have a domain you'd need to setup windows2k or 2k3 server and dcpromo it. And if you do that you are actually getting rid of the workgroup all together and all the computers would then log into a domain.

In your case, I don't think a domain controller is what you want to do. But it's the only way to manage the accounts besides making the same account on that computer.

 

Thanks for the reply Coco

Do you think this is a limitation built into windows workgroups? or is there a good reason it cant be done wothout a domain controller?

Thanks again

 

Maybe this would help.
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=74466&highlight=folders

 

Yeah there is a good reason it can't be done. Because without a domain to determine who has what rights, your computer has no rights to any of the other computers on the network. That includes there users. Just think how big a security hole it would be, if any old computer could simply connect to another and get a list of all their users and passwords so that they could then use it to validate on that computer.

As for the link tater gave. It doesn't really deal with networking at all. Although you can give it a look and see if you find something, but it doesn't appear to be talking about locking a local folder. Which wouldn't work for network sharing.

 

Ooops, sorry. My post was for a file locker (I use one called Folder Lock) but I didn't know it doesn't work on a shared folder. Just assumed it would. Thanks for the info.