How To Set Permissions On Shared Folders Over A Network

[Harley]

I need help with securing a shared folder over my office
network. My computer runs WXP Pro and I have 4 other
people I would like to share my folder with. 3 of the
users run W2K and the 4th one runs WXP Pro. Simple file
sharing has been turned off on my computer but I have been
unable to keep our entire network from viewing my shared
folder. I would like to only give acces to the four people
I mentioned above. Dose anybody have any idea how I can
give only those four people permission to access and keep
everybody else in the office out?

Please Help,

Harley

 

[v2nbate]

The first thing that comes to mind is not setting up any
security ( i would still recommend doing so) but infact
just hiding the folder w/ the $

(Adding a dollar sign $ to a share will make it hidden
thru my network places)

for example:

If i was on your network and I had a folder called.. oh
lets say Reports and I didn't want anyone to access it
except for a select few I would right click the share and
go to sharing and security, and (with simple file sharing
off like you said) I would just add a dollar sign to the
end:

Reports$

Now when going thru my network places it might take awhile
for the actual share to disappear from there..

if you want more information about netcrawl check out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;256248 )

But now in order to access your share, I don't know if
this is the type of situation you were planning on but you
will either have to map a drive or browse to it manually:

\\192.168.1.100\reports$

you can map a drive by going to My Computer\Tools\Map
network drive and then providing the path to the share
(\\192.168.1.100\reports$) (or \\<computername>\reports$)


I hope that helps ya out!

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I need help with securing a shared folder over my office
network. My computer runs WXP Pro and I have 4 other
people I would like to share my folder with. 3 of the
users run W2K and the 4th one runs WXP Pro. Simple file
sharing has been turned off on my computer but I have been
unable to keep our entire network from viewing my shared
folder. I would like to only give acces to the four people
I mentioned above. Dose anybody have any idea how I can
give only those four people permission to access and keep
everybody else in the office out?

Please Help,

Harley

Ron Lowe and I have written a web page with full details:

Windows XP Professional File Sharing
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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