Work Group

[Bunsak]

Dear All,

I need your help!
I'm recently using PCs, and I have three computers in the group.
All the computers are in the same group name, and all computers connect to each other very well. Computer (A), Computer (B), Computer (C).
in Computer (A) has three drives, I've shared entire drive(e), so computer(B) and Computer(C) can access and work on this drive.

But the problem is:

How can I protect share files or folders (in Drive e) with the password, every time when computer(B) and computer(C) access to it?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Bunsak

 

[tlarkin]

Only certain versions of Windows actually support that natively. If you are running Vista or Win7 you can download the power shell (which I am just now tinkering with myself) and it looks like you can set ACLs (access control lists) from the command line now. It is basically MS's answer to a power Unix shell, but is probably laughable.

Another trick you can do, is you can put a $ in front of any folder you do not want visible on the network. This will hide it from explorer searches but if they know the full path they can still map it.

 

[Jiffyman]

You could also set it so only administrators or a specified user can have access to that folder and no one else. Right click on file or folder on the shared drive >properties>security tab. From there you can add and remove users who you want to access that folder. Use the check mark boxes to select their rights. You may even be able to limit access for each computer. Say someone logs into (B) or (C) with an account that doesn't have access to that folder, if they try to click it they will get access denied. If you log in to (B) or (C) and you click you are allowed to view them. The File Server client will automatically sned the username and password of the logged on user to the file server, so remember to make accounts on all the computers that are identical to the ones who are granted/denied rights to that folder. Here are some microsoft article that explains it in more detail than I possibly could offhand. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/security/permissions.mspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727008.aspx