2 days Wasted. XP.Pro User shares Help needed <<<<<<

OK. There is me the admin and wife n kids the users. They all have thier own names and are connected to the 'users' group.

I have disabled simple file sharing. I have also disabled the hidden default admin shares. ( i did this because everytime i selected Do Not Share, when the system re-booted the deafult admin shares came back again)

I have shared the drive i do not want the user group to access. In the share permissions, I have set USER group permisions all to DENY.

So buy my google-ing, 2 dam days and nights. The users when logged in under thier own name and having the permisions of the shared folder set to deny access, WHY can they still access the Drive ?????????

Please help. No hair left, Lost a load of sleep and tbh Stumped !!!!

I have just found this article ( link :> http://www.winxpsolution.com/UnderstandSharedfolderXPPro.aspx )

It says " Shared folder permissions don't restrict access to users who gain access to the folder at the computer where the folder is stored. They apply only to users who connect to the folder over the network. "

Has all my reading and messing around been in vain. If this is actually true, what is the point of having USERS and different logins etc on a standalone PC in the first place. Totaly confused now

Sorry guys. It seems i got so involved in learning the settings etc that i forgot the one MOST IMPORTANT thing of all.

On the new install of XP Pro, i formatted the C:drive to NTFS. As you can guess, because i had data on the other drives i wanted to keep, I didnt reformat these. DOH!!!

Needless to say, FAT32 does not support the share settings i want.

It only took me 2 days. Motto now is. Even if you think you have, check it anyway.

Your other mistake is appling networking concepts to local disk access. You do not share locally. You only share across a network. Local admin shares can't be seen by users so that was also a moot point. There are a number of good books out there that explain the difference in detail between network shares and local permissions. In your case you are only concerned about local permissions.