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is this possible in windows XP pro?

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makken

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feel free to move this if this belongs more in the OS forum than the networking,

Anyways, I'm trying to set up a shared folder on an old winxp pro box. I want two levels of access, a public read-only account and an admin level full control account with access to some additional files not avalaible to the public account.

Right now I have it set up as two folders, one public folder which the public and admin accounts have access to, and one admin folder containing the additional files the public account doesn't have access to.

I'm running into two issues:

1) If I log in under the public account on a computer, that account info is saved, and the only way i can switch to the admin account is to log out on that computer. I have enabled "don't save .net credentials etc." on all computers but it doesn't seem to work.

2) Is there any way to mirror the contents of the public folder into the admin folder? not that important but would make life much easier for me.

thanks
 
1) If I log in under the public account on a computer, that account info is saved, and the only way i can switch to the admin account is to log out on that computer. I have enabled "don't save .net credentials etc." on all computers but it doesn't seem to work.
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Whatever that .net credentials setting you're talking about almost assuredly isn't related to Windows file sharing at all.

You can use 'net use /d' to log out from a SMB/CIFS share without logging out. It really sucks that MS never added that to Explorer to make it simpler.
 
thanks for the suggestions.

The setting i was talking about was "Network access: Do not allow storage of credentials or .NET Passports for network authentication". which came up on a google search of the subject.

reading up on ntfs junctions now. the drive where the folder is located is currently formated as FAT32, but I shouldn't have any issues reformating it.
 
k, got everything working, thanks guys.

One final question, is there a way to access the shared folder from a remote location (ie. over the net)? i've tried setting up a VPN, got it to connect but can't seem to figure out what to do to access the shares beyond that
 
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