This is a question about both xp and vista to a lesser extent. I can't
find the proper english group for xp netowrking in the newsgroup list so
I am posting here.

I have 6 workstaions. a mix of xp and vista. I am hoping that I can
configure the vista machines in the same way I am doing xp.

This is a workgroup environment not a AD.

Let us say the 6 workstations are

1) alice (xp)
2) john (xp)
3) mary (xp)
4) Jack (xp)
5) roger (xp)
6) morgan (vista)


Lets look at alice.

What I have done is to create 5 user accounts (limited) on alice called
john, mary, jack, roger and morgan. I have set their password all to
network.

****QUESTION****: In order to share a folder(s) to these other 5
workstaions do I have to manually set up each user on the alice machine
or is there a way to see these users of the other machines listed in the
share permissons and just select them without having to set up physical
accounts for them on the alice machine.

I go into "tools - folder options ... - view" and disable simple file
sharing.

I right click on the folder i want to share and click on "Sharing and
security..."

I share the folder click on permissions under the sharing tab, add the
five users - I manually setup on alice machine locally with limited
accounts - and give full control to each of the 5 users . I remove all
other users that were in there previsously (like the everyone person).

I go to the security tab and remove again anyone that should not be
there like the users group. I again add the 5 local user accounts i had
created before. I set there allow permissions as necessary. I click on
advance uncheck inherit from parent and copy the permissions from the
parent to this folder.

At this point I am done but for one last question related to the 5 user
accounts I setup on alice.

****QUESTION****: After setting up these five local accounts on alice
that now means that these users can sit infront of the alice machine and
actually log in locally. I do not one this. I basically set them up on
alice for file/printer sharing purposes only. Is there a way to prevent
these five accounts from logging in locally and only allow network login
access to get to the share on the alice workstation?


Thanks for your help.