dosquest wrote:Hi, I am thinking of creating a low cost file server with win2k pro with sp4, now I am cheap so I am going with 2k (shh don't tell micro$ft that) because I have a serial saying around, I am wondering if I connect it to the internet can I use a partition of it as a network drive that will be able to be accessed by a windows 7 computer?
You should be able to share a partition and/or folder with the proper permissions, even if you make a READ only type of permission.
You may have to setup the AUTHENTICATED USER with full access rights too, perhaps with GUEST read only access.
The trick I find is to setup your LAN as a WORKGROUP and make all machines that will connect and share between each other be part of this same WORKGROUP.
I would also make sure all the machines are on the same subnet too, which I would assume they are if you have a DHCP server running as well.
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