5.1 Sharing Files on Windows 9598Me

   

5.1 Sharing Files on Windows 95/98/Me

When sharing files on Windows 95/98/Me, you can authenticate users in two different ways. Share-level security is the default and is easy to use. However, it is not as secure and can require users to type in passwords when connecting to shares. User-level security offers a better security model and can be used if you have either a Samba or Windows NT/2000 server on your network performing user authentication.

To configure the type of access control for your system, open the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon, then click the Access Control tab. You should see the dialog box shown in Figure 5-1.

Figure 5-1. The Access Control tab of the Windows 98 Network Control Panel window
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Click the "Share-level access control" or "User-level access control" radio button, depending on which you want to use. When using user-level access control, you will also need to fill in the name of your workgroup or Windows NT domain. Reboot as requested .

To share a folder, right-click the folder's icon and select Sharing . . . . This will open the Sharing tab of the folder's Properties dialog box. Click the "Shared As:" radio button, and fill in a name for the share (which defaults to the folder's name) and a description, which will be visible to client users. If you don't want the share to be visible in the Network Neighborhood view of other Windows clients , pick a name for the share that ends in a dollar sign ( $ ).

Figure 5-2 shows what the Sharing tab of the folder's Properties dialog box will look like when using share-level security. The security settings are very simple. You can select a radio button for read-only access or full (read/write) access, or have the user's permissions (either read-only or read/write) depend on which password they use. In accordance with which you select, you will be asked to assign either or both of the read-only and full-access passwords for the share.

Figure 5-2. The Sharing tab of the folder's Properties dialog, with share-level security
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If your system is configured with user-level security, the Sharing tab of the folder's Properties dialog box will look like Figure 5-3. As you can see, we've created a share named "DATA", and used the Add . . . button to create permissions that allow read-only access for all domain users and read/write (full access) for jay .

Figure 5-3. The Sharing tab of the folder Properties dialog, with user-level security
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When you are done specifying your settings for the share, click on the OK button, and the share will become available to users on network clients. Unless you chose a share name ending in a dollar sign, you can see it in the Network Neighborhood or My Network Places of Windows clients on the network. You can also now use the Unix clients described in this chapter to connect to the share.

   


Using Samba
Using Samba: A File and Print Server for Linux, Unix & Mac OS X, 3rd Edition
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