Win XP Pro, password prompt on shares

My 7 year old son has just discovered that I have set up my network
with full access.

I now want to password protect my shares and cannot find out how to do
it. All PCs run Win XP Pro, 2 out of three are formatted NTFS. NTFS is
not an option for the third PC.

So, how do I ensure that a password prompt appears whenever he tries
to access another PC? It sometimes happens but I don't know why.

I *have* googled before posting here, but cannot find anything
relevant. Simple file shares disabled on all machines.

TIA.

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Dr Teeth wrote:
> My 7 year old son has just discovered that I have set up my network
> with full access.
>
> I now want to password protect my shares and cannot find out how to do
> it. All PCs run Win XP Pro, 2 out of three are formatted NTFS. NTFS is
> not an option for the third PC.
>
> So, how do I ensure that a password prompt appears whenever he tries
> to access another PC? It sometimes happens but I don't know why.
>
> I *have* googled before posting here, but cannot find anything
> relevant. Simple file shares disabled on all machines.
>
> TIA.
>
Setup a user - say 'fred' - on the machine hosting the shares + give the
account a password and then make sure in the security settings/
permissions for the share(s) that only 'fred' is allowed access to the
share.

When you next connect to one of the shares from another machine, the
user name and password used to login to *that* machine will be used to
try and access the share without success and so a little box will pop up
asking you to login.

I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when Linker3000
<(E-Mail Removed)> opened his gob and said:

>Setup a user - say 'fred' - on the machine hosting the shares + give the
>account a password and then make sure in the security settings/
>permissions for the share(s) that only 'fred' is allowed access to the
>share.

I just tried something similar to that. I deleted all groups in the
security tab except 'fred' and gave him full and complete access both
there and in the sharing tab. Fecked up my machine...System restore
would not work neither would anything that used windows installer or
cryptography service.

Managed to fix it...the MSoft fix for restoring security defaults
didn't work. Did it by applying 'use simple file sharing' and opening
up my machine (share-wise). Having to reformat and reinstall on
another machine.

In the security settings there are five groups. Currently, only
'Everyone' has access.

How do I ensure that only 'fred' has access without getting into the
same mess again?

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

Dr Teeth wrote:
> I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when Linker3000
> <(E-Mail Removed)> opened his gob and said:
>
>> Setup a user - say 'fred' - on the machine hosting the shares + give the
>> account a password and then make sure in the security settings/
>> permissions for the share(s) that only 'fred' is allowed access to the
>> share.
>
> I just tried something similar to that. I deleted all groups in the
> security tab except 'fred' and gave him full and complete access both
> there and in the sharing tab. Fecked up my machine...System restore
> would not work neither would anything that used windows installer or
> cryptography service.
>
> Managed to fix it...the MSoft fix for restoring security defaults
> didn't work. Did it by applying 'use simple file sharing' and opening
> up my machine (share-wise). Having to reformat and reinstall on
> another machine.
>
> In the security settings there are five groups. Currently, only
> 'Everyone' has access.
>
> How do I ensure that only 'fred' has access without getting into the
> same mess again?

Did you perhaps remove the Administrators group from the security
permissions list? You need this to control your system, and I think some
apps and utilities have to have admin privileges to work. So I've read,
anyway.
Keeping admin in the list should not compromise what you want to do
tough, as you wouldn't tell anyone else the admin password.
I think you need to remove Everyone, or reduce Everyones permissions,
and add Fred with the appropriate permissions.

I tried your suggestion and only got an access denied message and not
a password request.

Have you a link to a guide...I've looked.

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

Dr Teeth wrote:
> I tried your suggestion and only got an access denied message and not
> a password request.

You would also need to make sure that the id/password on machine 1 was
not the same as an id/password on machine 2, otherwise Windows will log
on user 1 to machine 2 using that same id/pw automatically.
If the second machine does not have an id/pw setup the same as the user
on the first machine, it will ask for id and password.

> Have you a link to a guide...I've looked.

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...ring/index.htm

This one seems pretty good.

John

I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when John Fryatt
<(E-Mail Removed)> opened his gob and said:

>You would also need to make sure that the id/password on machine 1 was
>not the same as an id/password on machine 2, otherwise Windows will log
>on user 1 to machine 2 using that same id/pw automatically.
>If the second machine does not have an id/pw setup the same as the user
>on the first machine, it will ask for id and password.

I have found the link that you mentioned, but things are not clear.

I have three PCs on my LAN, two are NTFS and one FAT32.

All have the same users and passwords. I am the only admin user on all
PCs, the other users are all ltd accounts. No matter what I seem to
do, I can only get full access or no access...I want password prompts
or full access for my accounts and password prompts for the ltd
accounts (so that if I use them I can get access to the other PCs).

I'll experiment some more and see how I get on.

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when Dr Teeth
<(E-Mail Removed)> opened his gob and said:

>I'll experiment some more and see how I get on.

Just cannot seem to get a password prompt.

Also, cannot seem to enter users from other PCs on the LAN to a PC's
access control list.

What do I have to do, sacrifice my first-born to Beelzebub?

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

Dr Teeth wrote:
> My 7 year old son has just discovered that I have set up my network
> with full access.
>
> I now want to password protect my shares and cannot find out how to do
> it. All PCs run Win XP Pro, 2 out of three are formatted NTFS. NTFS is
> not an option for the third PC.
>
> So, how do I ensure that a password prompt appears whenever he tries
> to access another PC? It sometimes happens but I don't know why.
>
> I *have* googled before posting here, but cannot find anything
> relevant. Simple file shares disabled on all machines.
>
> TIA.
>

Not perfect but...

If you Prefix the share name with $ (Dollar) then the share drive would
not show up in Network Places, only by knowing the shared drives name
would you be able to access them.

Dr Teeth wrote:
> I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when Dr Teeth
> <(E-Mail Removed)> opened his gob and said:
>
> >I'll experiment some more and see how I get on.
>
> Just cannot seem to get a password prompt.
>
> Also, cannot seem to enter users from other PCs on the LAN to a PC's
> access control list.
>
> What do I have to do, sacrifice my first-born to Beelzebub?

Stick him on E-Bay ... £45 No Reserve :-)