We have about 5 computers in the shop that are used by 5-10 different employees.  To handle the logins I created a general user account called SHOP.  Every computer is logged in with this user.  We have some shared folders on the server and the permissions have been controlled by user groups.  so far this has worked fine but today the manager from the shop wanted to change a file on the shared folder and he does not have permissions to do this.  The manager does not have his own computer so it is logged in with the SHOP user.  And since the SHOP user only has read rights he can't save his file. 

 

I don't want to make him log in as a different user because the computer he uses will also be used by other people that shouldn't have write access to the shared folder.  I guess I could have him log in and out as he uses it but that would be very inconvenient.

 

Is there a different way to control access to the shared folder?  Can you make it ask for a password before you can access the folder like you can do with multiple user profiles on Outlook?  Any other ideas?

 

Thanks, Mike

Good idea with the "Run as" feature.  I'll take a look at it.

 

I tend to agree with you but I don't know how else to set it up so that the guys in the shop can use which ever computer is open.  They use the computers to write cutter path for CNC machines and sometimes once they get the program started, it can take hours before the entire path is done so the computer has to sit there until then.  That user would either do setups on the machines or would find a different computer to write other cutter path.  The guys in charge here have told me the only thing they don't want is for the users "to be logging in and out all day when they should be working".  They are not the most accepting when it comes to this stuff.

 

How else could I have set this up to allow better control? 

 

Thanks, Mike