> I'm helping a friend maintain her small business office computers.
>
> There is no server/domain controller because nobody knows how to manage
> one and it would become a liability than a helper.
>
> Yet, there is a need to share files between my friend and her secretary,
> and to prevent anyone else on the LAN from seeing those files (they share
> the LAN with other businesses in the same building).
>
> One way I know how to do this is to create a duplicate account of my
> friend on her secretary's computer, and create her secretary's account on
> her computer, and turn off the guest account. This allows the two
> computers to share files with each other without asking for password each
> time. The only minor disadvantage is if one of them changes password, she
> has to do it on the other computer as well.
>
> Are there better ways to do this?

On Oct 14, 11:53 am, "james" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> I'm helping a friend maintain her small business office computers.
>
> There is no server/domain controller because nobody knows how to manage one
> and it would become a liability than a helper.
>
> Yet, there is a need to share files between my friend and her secretary, and
> to prevent anyone else on the LAN from seeing those files (they share the
> LAN with other businesses in the same building).
>
> One way I know how to do this is to create a duplicate account of my friend
> on her secretary's computer, and create her secretary's account on her
> computer, and turn off the guest account. This allows the two computers to
> share files with each other without asking for password each time. The only
> minor disadvantage is if one of them changes password, she has to do it on
> the other computer as well.
>
> Are there better ways to do this?