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AlvinG
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 Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject: Workgroup / Application Question |
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This is more of an applications question, but thought I'd throw it out here.
I have a small workgroup of about 30 computers running XPPro, which are
physically connected to a large network for Internet access only.
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This workgroup is a computer lab used to help users prepare personal |
documents which contain confidential information. A typical course usually
runs about 4 weeks, so one group of users move on after 4 weeks, and then
another group starts. During the 4 week period, users save their information
to the local drive, which is no security at all because all computers are
configured with the same logon and no password. Instructors need to access
their daily work for review, so they go around to each computer to do so. I
could share folders so the instructors could do this from one computer, but
that doesn't solve the problem.
I need to add security for the user's data where other users cannot access
it, and store it in a centralized location so Instructors can access it. And
keep in mind; I have a turnover every 4 weeks.
The only way I know to do this in a workgroup would be to create user
accounts every 4 weeks on each computer and create shares on another, but
that's not going to happen. The users could save their data to a flash drive
or floppy disk, but then the instructors cannot access it, and or the users
will lose the media.
I posted a question earlier about adding a DC and adding the computers to
the domain, which would make securing the data and creating user accounts
much easier but after thinking about it, it's still a little more overhead
than what I'd prefer to do every 4 weeks. So, I'm looking for an option with
little or no administrative overhead.
What would be nice is to find an application that I could load on a member
server in a workgroup where users could access it from their desktop, and
would allow them to create their own account with a password to store data.
The next day the user would start the application; select his/her name and
enter their password to access their data. It would also automatically add
my instructors to the access list each time a folder/account was created.
And of course, since this is a member server in a workgroup it would work
independently from AD. Anyone seen any applications to accomplish something
like this; or any ideas of how to configure this in a workgroup with server
2K3?
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JohnB
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: Workgroup / Application Question |
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A real simple solution, that's free, is Google Documents
(https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&passive=true&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F%3Fhl%3Den%26tab%3Dwo&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F%3Fhl%3Den%26tab%3Dwo<mpl=homepage&nui=1&rm=false)
It's password protected. I've used it before. It works great.
"AlvinG" <georgia_alvin@lacoe.edu> wrote in message
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| Quote: | This is more of an applications question, but thought I'd throw it out
here.
I have a small workgroup of about 30 computers running XPPro, which are
physically connected to a large network for Internet access only.
This workgroup is a computer lab used to help users prepare personal
documents which contain confidential information. A typical course usually
runs about 4 weeks, so one group of users move on after 4 weeks, and then
another group starts. During the 4 week period, users save their
information to the local drive, which is no security at all because all
computers are configured with the same logon and no password. Instructors
need to access their daily work for review, so they go around to each
computer to do so. I could share folders so the instructors could do this
from one computer, but that doesn't solve the problem.
I need to add security for the user's data where other users cannot access
it, and store it in a centralized location so Instructors can access it.
And keep in mind; I have a turnover every 4 weeks.
The only way I know to do this in a workgroup would be to create user
accounts every 4 weeks on each computer and create shares on another, but
that's not going to happen. The users could save their data to a flash
drive or floppy disk, but then the instructors cannot access it, and or
the users will lose the media.
I posted a question earlier about adding a DC and adding the computers to
the domain, which would make securing the data and creating user accounts
much easier but after thinking about it, it's still a little more overhead
than what I'd prefer to do every 4 weeks. So, I'm looking for an option
with little or no administrative overhead.
What would be nice is to find an application that I could load on a member
server in a workgroup where users could access it from their desktop, and
would allow them to create their own account with a password to store
data. The next day the user would start the application; select his/her
name and enter their password to access their data. It would also
automatically add my instructors to the access list each time a
folder/account was created. And of course, since this is a member server
in a workgroup it would work independently from AD. Anyone seen any
applications to accomplish something like this; or any ideas of how to
configure this in a workgroup with server 2K3?
Thanks
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