Networks

Re: Securing network files

dwelp — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:09:08 GMT

I put in an Iomega NAS that also has the user control like Chris says. It was only for about 5 users, so I don't know about the performance issues. I had an early life failure which Iomega replaced the box for me.

Do consider a way to backup the files on your NAS. Other wise it's a good way to get file sharing with out the other complexities of an active directory.

Dave

Re: Securing network files

shipley.c — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:11:14 GMT

Your first problem is that you can't have more than 10 PCs connected to a Windows XP Pro shared folder. Thank you Microsoft. :) The best solution I see for you is to buy a simple NAS (Network Attached Storage). They are relatively cheap, and the few I've seen from Linksys allow you to set up usernames and passwords on the folder shares. They also allow you to select which users have access to which folders. You'll then have to remap all of the desktops to the proper shares. Usually, if you have set up the NAS device properly, you can use the same username/password combination that users already use to login to the local machine - so the network mapping is fairly transparent to them and they don't need to maintain another username and password. (this falls apart if you are enforcing a password change policy).

I've only used a NAS device from Linksys in the past and honestly was not impressed with its network performance. Hopefully someone else can chime in with a review of a decent NAS that will work in a Windows Workgroup type network like yours.

Re: Securing network files

djanke — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:43:23 GMT

What kind of problems are you running into?

Securing network files

fcckenn — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:18:19 GMT

I have network of 20 + pc's with 3 levels of users administration/staff/volunteer. I have a stand alone pc acting as a server with XP Pro (Most other pc's are xp pro + a few Vista home premium). I am running into problems with securing files. At this point I do not want to take it to the next level and use an actaul server software and learn active directory. I am looking for ideas to remedy this. Any ideas?

Kenn