OK, I hope someone can help me. My fraternity is setting up an Unreal Tournament... tournament [whatever]. I run Win2K Server, so does our president. We are bringing down the computers of everyone in the house into our living room to do this, and other people will be using our machines. We have set up Guest accounts, but we can't find out how to keep the account from accessing other physical drives on the machine. We don't want someone looking through our personal files. I tried to unshare the drives from thier default share, but that didn't help. I really don't want to ***** open my machine and pull the SCSI drives.

Any help is much appreciated,
-bZj

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Right-click on each drive in My Computer and go to Security.

Do you have to be NTFS formatted, b/c I use FAT32 so I can see things in WinME. I don't have a "security" selection.

-bZj

Yep, you have to use NTFS. You could put all your stuff on a separate partition and convert it to NTFS using Convert X: /FS:NTFS /V

Don't bother enabling the guest account. Too many permissions there.

Setup the main tournament server as a domain controller. Create a user account ie: "UT Player" and give it regular user access to the domain, or make it a member of the Domain Users Group. Enable DHCP as well so that ip addressing is automatic. Everyone connected to your domain should be able to logon with the same user account. Make sure you assign enough licensing (per seat) when you configure your server for a little more than the computers that will be connected.

That way they can play UT as long as they want via tcp/ip on the network, and they won't have access to anything, unless you share it deliberately.

You might also be able to share the actual game UT and give the "UT Player" account the increased permissions to run the game from the domain controller as well, but that would require a smoking server and fast ethernet with a switch also.

And yes you will need NTFS because you won't have any security settings to assign NTFS file permissions, which is what using 2000 Server is all about.

Hope this info will help out and let us know if it worked or another strategy suggested was better.

Clutch is the guy you want to get involved here. He is a very experienced MCSE. I'm still in my 2000 track program.

Oh, well how about un-mounting HD partitions except the NTFS ones? That way they wont have access to fat32

Can it be done?

I use NTFS for win 98 in Win Me to let it see my NTFS partitions from Win Me and it works perfectly. only drawback is that c: has to be fat32 for Win Me to run.

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