Network user access in Win2K

[IcemanJer]

Is it possible to set up my Win2K to get a list of the users from a domain server who can access shared resources on my computer? For example, like the "User-Level Access" option in Win98/ME..

 

[igiveup]

Yeah, just logon to the domain and then set the security settings for that folder, drive or device to limit access to what you want certain people to get into. It should automatically pull down a list from the server, at least it did at the office. To get to the security settings you should enable file sharing then share the drive or whatever that you want shared. Right click on that item in explorer and then select sharing. In there will be a Security tab. Click on this and then add whomever you want to the list, just be sure you tweak the settings down below on who can do what.

 

[IcemanJer]

That means in the Network Identification I'd have to select I'm a member of Such-and-such domain (instead of Workgroup), have the admin password so I can add myself to the domain??

Because right now, without the admin password, the only way I can logon to the domain is through the DCE Cell Directory Service (RPC Service) found in the properties for Client for Microsoft Networking in the Networking properties.

 

[IcemanJer]

bump

 

[Asubit]

you shouldnt require the admin pw. that's one way of doing it, at least it was a way with nt, to just create a new user on that domain controller using the admin's login/pw from a client on the network.

But if you have access to shared resources on the network that means you are authenticatin gsomehow.. which leads me to believe you have a login/pw for that domain. Which means that so long as your domain settings on the client match the server you are trying to get recognized by and you use that login info then you should be fine.

When you enter the name of the domain on the win2k client it should automatically allow you into the domain... then you simply reboot and login.

 

[IcemanJer]

As I understand it, I can either belong to a domain or a workgroup within Network Identities. Right now, I have workgroup selected. And then I entered our domain server's name (the one that one would normally enter in properties for MS Networking in the Networking properties in Win98) in the DCE Directory Service thing that I mentioned above, and I guess somehow that allowed me to be authenticated by the domain, yet be still belonging to the same workgroup as the people on the same subnet...

Does that make sense to you at all?