Hello, I manage a small peer to peer network of 10 XP PRO computers. Out of the 10 computers, i use one of them as a workstaton/server computer. This computer holds everyone's data. I'm trying to implement a solution for user's privacy on this computer. Ideal solution will be user logs on from any workstation, the workstation has a drive mapping to the workstation/server computer, so if the user request his personal folder, the folder will require a password. I want to be able to place different passwords on different folders. Is their any software that can set passwords to folders? Basically act like a Windows Server environment but without the server software. Any suggestions, thanks.
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What do you mean by personal folder do you mean the My Documents folder?
HOW TO: Set the My Documents Folder as "Private" in Windows XP
You Cannot Select the "Make This Folder Private" Option
You might like to check some of the options here.
Even the use of WinZip is a possibility, having a password protection option.
There is also Encryption in XP but its use needs careful study.
HOW TO: Set the My Documents Folder as "Private" in Windows XP
You Cannot Select the "Make This Folder Private" Option
You might like to check some of the options here.
Even the use of WinZip is a possibility, having a password protection option.
There is also Encryption in XP but its use needs careful study.
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Hey Linney, thanks for your suggestions. On personal folders, i mean just private data, not my documents. Basically one computer out of ten will hold everyone's data. The hosting computer/file server has about 15 folders that belong to 15 different users. These folders must all be private and ideally request individual passwords for each folder. Any ideas on software? Thanks
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you can share the individual folders on the "server" pc, and set security permissions for the share to limit only the admin and user in question to have access to the folder. Then, the individual user can map to the folder using the \\computername\sharename$ syntax (making the share hidden to other users as well) on their computer, selecting the "reconnect at logon" option.
Even if other users did know the share name on the computer, if they attempted to map to it or browse to it they would get an "access denied" message.
repeat until all users are configured and mapped. You can even go a step further and set the security permissions on the filesystem level itself(the actual files located within the shared folder), meaning that even if an unauthorized user gained access to the share folder, they would still get an "access denied" message when they attempted to look at individual files. (assuming none of the unauthorized users in question would have administrative rights).
lastly, to take it even further still, there are encryption products that can encrypt individual folders/files requiring yet another level of authentication before the files/folder can be accessed/decrypted.
this(3rd party encryption) would accomplish the password needed, but realize that if security is based on logon ID as mentioned above, there would be no need to password protect the folder, as only that user would have rights to it anyway.
at least thats if im understanding the request properly....
Even if other users did know the share name on the computer, if they attempted to map to it or browse to it they would get an "access denied" message.
repeat until all users are configured and mapped. You can even go a step further and set the security permissions on the filesystem level itself(the actual files located within the shared folder), meaning that even if an unauthorized user gained access to the share folder, they would still get an "access denied" message when they attempted to look at individual files. (assuming none of the unauthorized users in question would have administrative rights).
lastly, to take it even further still, there are encryption products that can encrypt individual folders/files requiring yet another level of authentication before the files/folder can be accessed/decrypted.
this(3rd party encryption) would accomplish the password needed, but realize that if security is based on logon ID as mentioned above, there would be no need to password protect the folder, as only that user would have rights to it anyway.
at least thats if im understanding the request properly....
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