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Thread ID: 64495 2005-12-16 22:12:00 NTFS/share permissions on network aidanmaz (7180) Press F1
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413301 2005-12-16 22:12:00 i am completely lost with these permissions, i understand that share permissions are generally for FAT32 drives. so does this mean since im using NTFS that i ignore them and use NTFS security permissions? And with XP Pro and server 2003 standard, instead of having an account for the local pc can the admin a ccount on the server be used instead of the local? when i install XP its asks for admin password, is there an option to just use the server admin account instead of making a new one? and why cant partitons be shared normally, not as an admin share (eg: d$)?

sometimes windows seeems a little backwards in terms of usability but thats me being picky i guess!
aidanmaz (7180)
413302 2005-12-17 00:38:00 You will find that even real OSs require a root "superuser" account to exist on every machine. One of the reasons is that most of the "invisible" services which allow the machine to operate are owned by root, even if no-one ever logs in to that account after the OS has been installed. ;)

Permissions aren't "NTFS" or "FAT32". Those are filesystems. Permissions are attributes ... and they are managed by the operating system's security mechanisms.
Graham L (2)
413303 2005-12-17 21:39:00 the password its asking for is local machine access
ie if I took your machine off the network did a safe boot I would be able to log in into your machine as administrator with no password, handy if you forget password but very unsecure.
beama (111)
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