File Sharing w Password

[Guest Gary Brown]

Hi,

 

IIRC, at one time you could set up file sharing with protective passwords.

I don't see that anymore. I'm running XP SP2 Pro on one PC, Vista Premium

on the other. Turning off Simple File Sharing still doesn't allow passwords.

 

Briefly, I want to full control but only w passwords.

 

Thanks,

Gary

[Guest Shenan Stanley]

Re: File Sharing w Password

 

Gary Brown wrote:

> IIRC, at one time you could set up file sharing with protective

> passwords. I don't see that anymore. I'm running XP SP2 Pro on one

> PC, Vista Premium on the other. Turning off Simple File Sharing

> still doesn't allow passwords.

> Briefly, I want to full control but only w passwords.

 

You cannot setup a share with a pasword, per se - but a share setup in

Windows XP/Vista uses share and then file/directory permissions to determine

what users can access said files/folders.

 

In other words - if you share out a folder on your XP computer (without

simple file sharing on) and the file/folder permissions in that folder(on

the files/folders inside the shared folder as well as on the shared folder

root) are that your user "gary" can access them and the Share permissions

(they are seperate) are that everyone can access them - what happens is that

anyone can map the share that tries (with a username or not) but only somone

who maps the share with your "gary" username/password combination can do

more than map the share (read, execute, write to).

 

So if you want only 'gary' to be able to map and use the files/folders on a

given share - you set the file/folder permissions on said folder *and* the

share permissions on the share you create so that only 'gary' has full

rights to do whatever on said files/folders/share. Then when you try and

connect from another computer to that share - it should ask you for a

username/password - which would be the username for 'gary' and password for

'gary'.

 

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[Guest Gary Brown]

Re: File Sharing w Password

 

> Gary Brown wrote:

>> IIRC, at one time you could set up file sharing with protective

>> passwords. I don't see that anymore. I'm running XP SP2 Pro on one

> You cannot setup a share with a pasword, per se - but a share setup in

> Windows XP/Vista uses share and then file/directory permissions to

> determine what users can access said files/folders.

 

How do I set up the user? Is it just a standard user account? I had looked

at

that approach but the closest existing account to what I want I saw is

"Guest"

which I don't believe is very secure. Or is it?

 

Gary