Sharing and Login problem

[Alchemist 0]

I've got a little nuisance about sharing resources on a Win 2K pro and allowing login.

The scenario is , my friends and i usually give lan parties. I've got a win 2k pro sp2 as stated before and most of my buddies have win 98 . All i want is to give proper sharing priviliges but not allowing to login on my computer. The closest solution i find is enabling guest and locking the computer. This way people can dl/ul all the way they want but cannot login. Is there a proper way to give people shares ?

thx in advance

[CUViper 0]

Take a look at the "Local Security Policy" section of the administrative tools in the control panel. In the user rights assignment section, you can add users to the "deny logon locally" policy. This will let them access your shares, but not log on directly to the machine.

 

The way I did it on mine was to make a new user group called "Network Clients", and put that group in the "deny logon locally". Then, when I make a new user, I can just make them a member of that group (and only that group - remove them from the main users group) and the policy will apply to them automatically.

[Alchemist 0]

Thanks, much appreciated.