sharing a folder with Everone group

welp, which one are you working with file/folder permissions, Active Directory domain environment with NTFS permissions or a workgroup setting with NTFS permissions?

Further define remote users. In a network environment, remote users are those who access the network from outside the network such as from the internet. Some use the term remote users meaning another computer on the LAN.

Thanks for your response.

This is a Work Group, no Active Directory.

Remote user is another user on the same LAN and same workgroup.

Hope that clarifies it.

where, there could be a couple of different issues going on. in a workgroup there are 3 main things that need to be present. 1. all computers belong to the same workgroup [and not the default workgroup setup during installation. you have to join the computer to a new workgroup even if the name is workgroup]2. user accounts must be present on all computers which will shared folders or files within folders. Example: If Jim shares a folder on his compuer for John, Johns user account must be on Jims computer.3. Ya have to share something.

There is also a security policy "access this computer from the network" in the local machine security policies. sometimes this gets changed by people who think deleting users or groups from it secures their computer. Such changes often times causes a lot of problems. Here an article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=823659

In XP unlike W2K, there is local sharing, network sharing and configuring the Windows Firewall to allow the folder to be shared with others on the network. If you right click a folder and choose sharing the folder properties windows will open to the sharing tab. To allow others on the network to access the shared folder you have to check the box in Network sharing and security. Just dragging a folder to the Windows XP All Users shared folder allows only local machine sharing.

Hi , there is a difference between shared permissions and NTFS permissions. Believe you might be using shared permissions. Go to the security tab and see if the everyone group is there with the correct permissions.

Rgds

Hi

I have been experimenting with this recently and discovered that you need to create an account on your machine with the share that is identical to the account that person logs on with at the remote machine.

So if Joe logs on at home as AdminMan and uses password xxxxxx you need to create exactly the same account and password on your router to get through it's firewall (if you have one), and create exactly the same account and password on the machine with the share. Because I also use a domain, I had to create a domain account using the same criteria. Only then were remote users allowed to access the resources they had permission to access - otherwise they were locked out of everything.

Good luck