Exercise 8.6: Sharing a Directory Using User-Level Security

Exercise 8.6: Sharing a Directory Using User-Level Security

Objective: Allow Windows 95 to access another machine’s user accounts list and share a directory using user-level security.

Estimated time: 15 minutes

1.	From the Start menu, choose Settings, Control Panels to display the Control Panels window.
2.	Double-click on the Network icon to display the Network dialog box.
3.	Choose the Access Control tab and select User-level access control, as shown in Figure 8.12.
4.	Type the name of the server with the user accounts into the Obtain list of users and groups from field. Windows 95 attempts to access the Windows NT or NetWare server to obtain the users list.
5.	Select the Configuration tab and choose File, Print Sharing to display the File and Print Sharing dialog box.
6.	Select both the I want to be able to give others access to my files check box and the I want to be able to allow others to print to my printer(s) check box to enable others to access your printers and files. Then choose OK to automatically install File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks.
7.	Choose OK and restart the computer. Until you have restarted, the new settings will not take effect, and you will not be able to complete the exercise.
8.	After Windows 95 restarts, click Start, Windows Explorer. Create a new directory called UserLevel and then create a new text file in the folder named UserTest. Now choose the directory. Observe that the Password folder is no longer shared, as the change to user-level security results in the loss of all existing shares. (This doesn’t wipe out the files or folders, but it does eliminate the logical network path to them.)
9.	Right-click on the UserLevel directory to display its context-sensitive menu.
10.	Select Sharing from the context-sensitive menu to display the Sharing tab of the Properties application.
11.	Type UserLevl for the share name and give the Local Training group full-access privileges by selecting the group and choosing Full Access. Then choose OK. The folder symbol for the shared directory is replaced with an icon of a folder held by a hand. Sharing the folder UserLevel with the 8.3 compatible name UserLevl enables DOS workstations on the network to properly understand the name of the share. Remember that if all machines on your network are not capable of long file name support, you should continue to use network file-naming conventions that correspond to your network’s lowest common denominator.
12.	Log on to another computer on the network using the username to which you gave full-access permissions. Locate the share name UserLevl in the Explorer by browsing the entire network. The share name UserLevl is displayed under the appropriate computer name.
13.	Double-click on the share name UserLevl to display the directory contents.

Try to copy a file to the shared directory. The file write is allowed.