Guest Peabody Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 My desktop runs XP Pro, but two other family members have laptops running XP Home. I would like to be able to restrict share access on each computer to just one of the other two. So, for example, I want to sync certain financial files with one laptop, but not the other laptop (which would itself have it's own syncs on different folders). The problem is the XP Home computers. Home seems to treat everyone on the network as a Guest logon, and completely ignores that actual name and password of the user logging in. And while I can change the NTFS permissions of a folder as it applies to Guest, I don't see how to assign different rights to different network Guests. Of course I can accomplish all of this on transfers from my Pro computer to the other two by turning off Simple File Sharing and setting the rights as I want them, but going in the other direction, and between the two laptops, it appears that on the Home machines, if a folder is shared with one other computer, it's shared with all. Do I have this right with respect to XP Home, or have I missed something?
Guest fh Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Re: Questions on restricted shares - XP Home There is a software program that you may want to try. It will help you with network file sharing. and may solve your problems. See http://www.networkmagic.com for a 15 day trial. "Peabody" <waybackKILLSPAM44@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23hV5BXpwHHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > My desktop runs XP Pro, but two other family members have laptops > running XP Home. I would like to be able to restrict share access > on each computer to just one of the other two. So, for example, I > want to sync certain financial files with one laptop, but not the > other laptop (which would itself have it's own syncs on different > folders). > > The problem is the XP Home computers. Home seems to treat everyone > on the network as a Guest logon, and completely ignores that actual > name and password of the user logging in. And while I can change > the NTFS permissions of a folder as it applies to Guest, I don't see > how to assign different rights to different network Guests. > > Of course I can accomplish all of this on transfers from my Pro > computer to the other two by turning off Simple File Sharing and > setting the rights as I want them, but going in the other direction, > and between the two laptops, it appears that on the Home machines, > if a folder is shared with one other computer, it's shared with all. > > Do I have this right with respect to XP Home, or have I missed > something? >
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