My PC has both personal and business

[felrod]

information on it (laptop). In order to use the wireless LAN at my office, I will have to upgrade from Windows 98 to either XP Home or XP Pro. With XP Home I could wirelessly access internet and email while at the office, but XP Pro would be required in order to access the company's printers and storage space.

Here is my concern. Our tech administrator says that for full functionality with printers/storage, my PC will have to be set up as part of a domain that will be joined to the network. He says HE will be the highest-level administrator over my PC, not me.

Since I will have both personal and business info on this computer, is there any way in XP Pro for ME to prevent him or someone else from access to my personal files/folders, even though I will not be the highest-level administrator? I mean, short of encrypting everything.

Would XP Home be fairly secure from prying into my personal folderS, if I were simply to join the office wireless network as a WORKGROUP?

Thanks,
felrod

[bailey]

you will need xp-pro installed to be able to interconnect to the domain,
if your personal files are not shared, there will be no acess to them, also to set your mind to ease, you could always password protect them also.

[felrod]

Thanks, but a follow-up question: Wouldn't the highest-level network administrator be able to alter the status of ANY file/folder on my PC from private to shared? Or for that matter, even turn off the password protection? I guess that is the crux of my question, whether the administrator would be able to change the status (shared/private/password) of pretty much any file, regardless of the options I set up for it? Assuming that he is the highest-level administrator and my privileges are subordinate.

Or does my setting those file options prior to "joining the domain" PREVENT the administrator from being able to change those options for those specific files?

Thanks for the help.