Hi,
If you changed the limited account to and admin one, then it will have
sufficient level of privileges to make permission changes to other admin
accounts. This is why you were able to do that.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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"Keith" <newsgroup@email.com> wrote in message
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>I have two XP Pro machines each with two user accounts. On each machine one
>account has admin privileges the other is a limited account.
>
> I'm new to XP and networking and so I tried networking the two machines.
> On the same workgroup and using simple file sharing I had no problems.
>
> Then on one of the machines, I turned off simple file sharing and started
> playing.
>
> I noticed that even on the limited account it is possible to set security
> options for Allow and Deny, so I denied access to the "Documents and
> Settings" folder for the admin account.
>
> I expected that when I logged into the admin account that I would still
> have full access to this folder, but was surprised to find that I had
> indeed locked the admin user account out. I thought the whole point of a
> limited account was to stop users from messing up your system.
>
> Is this normal or have I confused my system into treating this limited
> account as though it was an admin account? I ask because I did change the
> limited account to an admin account a few days ago in order to run some
> software that only runs with admin privileges.
>
> thanks
>
> Keith
>
