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Best way to deploy tiered network access levels?

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larciel

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I'm not an expert on networks but a friend asked me for a favor to setup a LAN that has about 10-12 PCs. He wants to setup a tiered access levels such as #1 PC has access to all other computers on the network while #2,#3 and #4 has access to all except #1. #5 and below would have access among each other only.

I thought best way would be to 1) turn off simple file sharing and make 3 user accounts on each PC that has different access levels. But how would I be able to control which user account has access to certain PCs only?

And lastly, would there be a tweak that can allow only certain websites to be accessible? such as yahoo.com for email only?

Thanks in adv.
 
access in this case would be able to access other PCs file/printer. Remote control has been already setup with UltraVNC and Hamachi.

 
When you start dealing with ten or more Windows PCs, you are going to have to worry about connection limits (10 in XP Professional and 5 in XP Home) and the maintenance of multiple accounts. This is what Windows Server is designed to do. And a Windows Domain makes handling accounts, security, and access rights MUCH easier.
 
Thanks for the reply.

Could I expand the limit of 10 connection to say 15-20 with XP Prof? Getting Windows Server sounds ok but I want to keep the extra cost down because I feel the server might be a overkill for this job.

 
An XP Professional PC will accept ten simultaneous connections. If you exceed that, somebody is going to have to disconnect.

You asked about "the best way" to deploy tiered network access levels. With Windows and more than ten PCs, it's Windows Server. I wouldn't do work for a company with that many Windows PCs and no Server/Domain, because I'd be wasting too much of my time and their money keeping up with the account, security, and access problems.
 
My vote is for SBS 2003.

Keeping the ACL rights straight for that many pier to pier machines will consume more of yoru time than centralizing data on a file/print server.
 
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