Your shared password(s) WILL become known to others who are not supposed to have access to the resources you are protecting from them.Whether you share your Windows 7/8/10 with someone or not, keeping the folders locked and secure is crucial. It is also a horrific prospect from a data security standpoint.
You are MUCH MUCH MUCH better off using an Active Directory domain with NTFS permissions and AD groups. Then when they connect to the resource they use that username and password when prompted.īut, again, this is a CATEGORICALLY BAD IDEA for your size environment with 500-800 client machines. Then you give that local user permissions to the shared folders and pass out the password to that local user account to everyone.
I will preface this by saying that GregD and Oskar are right and that you should be using groups and standard NTFS permissions in an Active Directory domain for an environment of your size.īut to directly answer your question, in a Workgroup environment you can have password prompts for shared resources by creating a local user on the server that is not the same as any of the user accounts on the clients. Your help is highly appreciated and look forward to hearing from you. I only need get the users prompt for a password wnen he tries access to a certain shared folder over the network. Manage this requirement adding specific users to permission of the specifics folders become unmanageable, is just for that that i want only setup an different password for each shared folders. There are for example 500 client computers that can see the shared drive, but only 100(for example) of those computers must be allowed to access an specific folder by typing the user and password prompted. Now, i'm talking about across the network, not on the local computer. But before they gain access, they have to supply a password. is it possible to password protect the shared folder on the fileserver? what i really want is once everyone logging to their computer that's attached on the network, they start trying to gain access to the folder on the fileserver. They all run on windows XP, and some in windows 7. There is a several shared folders in C:\ drive that is shared with all computers on the network. Of that network, there is one server(Windows server 2003) that acts as a file server. I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me solve this problem.
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