Networking question...

[LibLabUK]

Have a home network, 3 WinXP Pro machines (Laptop, Desktop and Fileserver) and one Win98 machine (currently only used as a teamspeak server).

Network is a workgroup and doesn't have a domain server.

I'd like to be able to secure with passwords some of the shared folders I have on my fileserver, but I can't seem to find how to do this.

Under Win98 you could specify passwords for shares when you created them, you don't seem to get the option under WinXP.

Anyone have any ideas?

[liberalpress]

1. You can make some folders on a share private...

To make your folders private
Open My Computer.
Double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer).
If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive.

Double-click the Documents and Settings folder.
Double-click your user folder.
Right-click any folder in your user profile, and then click Properties.
On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box.
Notes

To open My Computer, double-click the My Computer icon on the desktop.
This option is only available for folders included in your user profile. Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites. If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer.
When you make a folder private, all of its subfolders are private as well. For example, when you make My Documents private, you also make My Music and My Pictures private. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you make them private.
You cannot make your folders private if your drive is not formatted as NTFS. For information about converting your drive to NTFS, click Related Topics.

[trotsky]

2. Heya LLUK

It's just Windows XP dumbing things down by default.

Open up a File Explorer window, then click Tools... Options. Click the View tab, and scroll all the way to the bottom. There is an option there called "Use simple file sharing". Uncheck it.

Now when you go to the Sharing & Security properties for a folder, you will have the full slate of options.

[LibLabUK]

3. Ahh... thanks.

I thought that there might be something like that but I couldn't for the life of me find it.

Cheers.