how to creat a LAN with having a username & password for each computer when they are connecting to the Network

Question

hello guys,, thanks for the answers to my last query.. it helped me a lot.. now i have this question above.. i have a small network maybe 4 to 6 PCs and i would like configure that each computer that would like to connet to the network will first be ask to log-in their corresponding username & passwords.. Guys i may need a step by step instruction on this one so please bear with me i really would like to learn you know..

Hoping for your best answers guys thanks in advance


mike

Answer 1

There are probably some industrial router which would allow you do just that (this may be however relatively pricy), or you could accomplish same in bit unorthodox way if you would opt for wireless communication with cheap home router. You would need home wireless router which supports WPA encryption (and most new days routers have support for WPA – which is ONLY safe encryption by the way) and PCs equipped with wireless cards or adapters. Taking advantage of the fact that in most routers same WPA connection can be set to use many different keys (which could be used as passwords), you could set connection to use few different ones giving different key to each user (which would allow them connecting to your network). Ability of controlling when each user logged in and off would be also simply available in most router’s logs accessible from it’s interface (access to which you could secure with password) - accessible from every and any PC of your network as well remotely from Internet. Never really thought of using router this way so don’t have any good suitable for your need example off hand, anyway because most routers documentation is accessible both online, as well manufacturer’s phone sell lines would be able to help, you could do some googline checking major names (Motorolla, Linksys, Westell, Belkin, etc) and do some reading or calling.

Answer 2

If you have just 1 computer sitting on a desk at home you have a LAN. A Local Area Network is no more than having 1 standalone computer or having many networked together with the use of switches, hubs, or routers. To accomplish what you want to do you have 2 choices. A Workgroup, which is almost always choice for home or small office networks, or a Domain. In a Workgroup each computer has its own Accounts and Passwords. And in order for another User and Computer to access those files they would have to know the corret credentials on the computer hosting the files they want access to. You can see this would become overwhelming from an Administrative point of view with more than 10 or so computers because every person would have to have a user account and password on each machine. The more manageable solution is a Domain where one computer, a Server, is used to authenticate users and computers and to grant permissions to Users or Computers for access to shared files or resources.

Answer 3

somewhat it in elementary words occurs wen sum1 has set a username nd password 4 ur pc u cn get rid of dat facility with techniques from gng 2 administration panel n dere with techniques from clickin on the consumers n passord icon. u cn den get rid of dat facility, and then ur pc gained't ask u 4 username n password.