vpn connection - read only access

[Glenn]

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I have setup an Internet router which has built in VPN
capabilities. I run a small peer to peer windows network at
my office with all the pc's connected to the router. All of
the computers are running Win XP & Home. I can connect to
my office computer using a tunnel running the PPTP
protocol. I have a friend who also needs to be able to
connect to the office network from home but I want to allow
him read only access to the files on my work computer. Is
this possible and if so how is this achieved ?

 

[Guest]

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Use Built-In Windows permissions on Shares.. Setup a User name and
password for him, change the Share permissions to the folders allowing
that User Read access only...

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Networking & Smart Display MVP)
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 03:11:27 -0700, "glenn"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have setup an Internet router which has built in VPN
>capabilities. I run a small peer to peer windows network at
>my office with all the pc's connected to the router. All of
>the computers are running Win XP & Home. I can connect to
>my office computer using a tunnel running the PPTP
>protocol. I have a friend who also needs to be able to
>connect to the office network from home but I want to allow
>him read only access to the files on my work computer. Is
>this possible and if so how is this achieved ?