On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Bernie Cosell wrote:
It appears that the answer to my original question is "NO --
with ACL- controlled-security enabled, you clients *always*
need to pass a password to access resources]. [and as
pointed out, you can make that fairly painless but you still
need to do it]. And, of course, the reason why I need to
give the admin password is because that's the only acct on my
XP/PRo system that has a password. So one way to "cover up"
admin a bit would be to create a new [probably limited]
account and give it some nominal password, then my various
other at-home systems can just use that one instead of admin.
Mostly you are right. There is a security setting which does
NOT allow blank passwords on network logons. Either turn off
that setting, or create a limited account/password for sharing
purposes which everybody may use. Or create limited accounts
which match the user/password of the accounts used to logon to
the other computers.
Another tack, which I might research, would be to switch back
and forth. That is, right now my XP/Pro system is fairly
stable, so I could turn on SFS [which, as I recall, will make
the 'security' tab go away from file/directory properties].
But then if I really DID need/want to mess with ACLs I could
turn off SFS, mess about, then turn it back on.
I believe, but am not positive, there are two pairs of "ACLs",
one for CFS (Classic) and the other for SFS. The ACL being used
would depend on which FS is in use.
I'll also need to research how SFS interacts with ACLs [so I
can control what access the 'network' has to the shared
resources. I assume/hope that SFS doesn't per-force grant
"FULL ACCESS" to the client machines..]
SFS only allows the Guest account to log on from the network.
You have control over read only or read/write access to
whatever you have shared. The sharing tab is very simplified.
[altogether it is sounding like just installing a standalone
print server might be simpler..:o)]
Actually this is our preferred option. Computers do not have to
be on [except the one being used of course :) ] and is faster.
This way the computer is "directly connected" to the printer
rather than being connected to a "network" (accessed through
another machine on the network) printer.
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