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How to Use Admin Tools, Computer Mgmt.

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by barbid

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I am a real newbie when it comes to working with networks and we recently set up a peer-to-peer network with one standalone computer as the server and 10 remote computers all using WINXP except 1 (it uses Win98SE). Does anyone know of any easy to understand resource on how to use the Administrative Tools (mainly computer management)? I like to be able to set restrictions on these computers instead of giving everyone an administrator logon. Thanks!

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by thechas

I think this book covers all that you need.

http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/5885.asp

What you are looking for is a system administrators guide to XP.

For older versions of Windows, this was referred to as the Administrators resource kit.

O'Reilly is my favorite source for books on computer subjects.
They are not written down to the end user level, and are filled with a lot of useful information.

http://www.oreilly.com/

Some of the information you need is posted on Microsoft's TechNet pages.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/

Chas

by sgt_shultz

yes, that is a great response from charles. i would add this: if you find yourself having to give everybody adminstrator rights to get things to work, that is often due to not having the correct user accounts set up on the xp boxes (there can be other reasons). make sure you have a user account for each user (including and the win98 users) using the exact same username and password used by each person to logon to their computers...hope this helps...

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