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It is possible. what OS are you using?<br />
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if you want anyone to be able to logon to that share, you could even add the group &quot;everyone&quot;. 
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It is possible. what OS are you using?

if you want anyone to be able to logon to that share, you could even add the group "everyone".

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ok, i'm assuming you are not on a domain. Are your computers in the same workgroup?<br />
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ok, i'm assuming you are not on a domain. Are your computers in the same workgroup?



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No we are on a domain, 2000 domain. When you share out a folder, you can specity domain accounts or machine accounds, when we give the machine account full access, both share permissions and ntfs permissions, and you logon to that machine, you don't get access unless the user account has permissions, I was wondering if you can give a machine account access to a share, and if someone logs on locally to workstation, would they have access based on the machine accounts permissions?
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No we are on a domain, 2000 domain. When you share out a folder, you can specity domain accounts or machine accounds, when we give the machine account full access, both share permissions and ntfs permissions, and you logon to that machine, you don't get access unless the user account has permissions, I was wondering if you can give a machine account access to a share, and if someone logs on locally to workstation, would they have access based on the machine accounts permissions?

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Is it possible to grant a machine account permissions to a share, like you would with a user account? <br />
We would like to give permissions to a machine account so anybody who logs on would have access to that share as defined by the machine account. I notice you can add a machine account under sharing and security. But it doesen't seem to work. 
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Is it possible to grant a machine account permissions to a share, like you would with a user account? 
We would like to give permissions to a machine account so anybody who logs on would have access to that share as defined by the machine account. I notice you can add a machine account under sharing and security. But it doesen't seem to work. 

Granting a machine account access to a share

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