xp, worst network os?

[lbhskier37]

How do I give a power user in windows XP permission to burn a cd? I dont want my little sister having full controll of her computer, but she needs to be able to burn cds.

 

[lbhskier37]

xp is starting to piss me off. Power Users also cannot download things by default, I would think the permissions are about the same as 2k, anyone know anything about those? Another thing, my internet gateway keeps disapearing whenever i reboot the computer that is the gateway. I thought xp was supposed to be good for networking.

 

[lbhskier37]

is there anyone out there that has any clue how to use this pathetic excuse for a networking os? Now I am trying to share a folder from one machine and under locations in permissions it doesnt show anythign but that machine itself, so I cant let my other machine have permission. And on the other machine it doesnt let me use permissions anyways, it only let you check shareing or not sharing. What am I doing wrong here, can someone try to explain why xp is better than 2K?

 

[sml]

ignorance is not equivalent to poor software is this XP home or professional? XP pro has been fine with all the machines i've rolled it out on; including a set of workstations for some family friends that are definately NOT computer savvy. Right click on the CD-R/RW drive and go to the 'security' tab [sorry this is from memory, no XP box in front of me ATM] add your sister's user/group and allow 'full control'. when you say power users can't download, they can't save files from a browser or they can't write to the disk? same procedure for allowing access to your disks, and check IE there's a setting called 'disable downloads' in the browser configuration. please post a dump of your net share command so the forum can see what your sharing issues are; i suspect you are trying to share the whole drive, which is slightly trickier in XP. go to the sharing tab and click that 'i swear i know what im doing' button. XP > 2K? maybe, the hardware support is light years better than 2000 and it's faster [seems faster to me, anyways.] hrm what else. built in firewall, NTP support, WMP8, cleartext or whatever, which looks nice on my LCDs. etc etc.

 

[lbhskier37]

Oops, sorry, I thought i had a signature with my specs on this site. Its XP pro that I am using. Ok I guess its not the worst, I am just frustrated. Now, I am using Nero, and when I try to run it I get this message: "Under Windows NT/2000 burn rights are required by nero to access CD recorders and cd-rom/dvd-rom drives. I checked and there is no security tab under the rom like there is in the hdd. The download thing I was wrong about, I was taking her word for it, but she just didnt know what she was talking about.. Now for some reason the gateway is sticking, so thats not a problem either. The one big problem is user permissons on shareing files. I figured out that one was set on simple sharing, thats why I couldnt set permissions, now that I have them both ready to accept permissions, I go to set them, and only local users and groups are shown. When I go to add, and hit location, it only shows the local machine. I can see all the shared files over the network, but I can open them. Is there something I am missing? Why there are only local permissions? Thanks so much for putting up with my bitching and not flaming me.

 

[zigCorsair]

<< Why there are only local permissions? >>



Although I am not a master, I have been working with the NT kernel for awhile now. I think that as long as you do not logonto a domain controller of some sort (most likely scenario), every person that wants to access files on your computer must do it through a locally controlled user name/pass. So, I think you need to setup a user to access that file.

Also, the first thing I do on every XP installation is turn off simple file sharing. Someone managed to upload an email into one of the shared folders on my machine and tried to execute it. NAV caught it, and I assume it removed the file automatically.

Also, the easiest way to add a user without making them part of a group is in
administrative tools > computer management > local users and groups folder

Overall, I'm pleased with XP. Perhaps it's just because I like playing with OSes and it gave me a new one to tinker with, but IIS allows more than one instance of a web server, and there are some other nice features too.

Peace.

 

[lbhskier37]

Jackpot, thanks dude. Now is there any way i can hide my loggin names at the startup, not all of them, just some. There is a whole crapload of them now. Also, anyone had the burner problem? Its using nero 5.24.