bsedgal Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Background: I volunteer as a sys admin for a small private gradeschool. The teachers see a need for the students to access their files via a file server instead of using individual floppies. So, each student's folder needs to be secure (only the associated student can access). The school cannot afford any of the Windows servers with active directory. Is it possible to set up a file server with file security in a workgroup? You cannot just create 2 same name users on different machines because it is a SID mismatch. Anybody know a way to tweak this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsedgal Posted November 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Moving this back to the top, because I kinda need to know soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozofdeath Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Does every student have a their own login/password? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsedgal Posted November 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Does every student have a their own login/password?No, but they can. However, it would only be a local account to each computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozofdeath Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 If they all did you could use file permissions. Each user could get a folder based on their username or something and only administrators and that user could access that folder and inherited files or folders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsedgal Posted November 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 They can only do that per the local computer they have an account with, not on one centralized file server because the file server would not recognize their accounts. No offense, but I need an MCSA or MCSE to answer this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 I don't think it's possible out of the box. There may be third party software that will let you do what you're trying to do, but I'm not finding it on a cursory Google search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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