4 Computers in a Network

[Eddie Lopez]

I'm running 4 computers in a peer to peer network 3 with
windowx XP professional and 1 with windows XP home
edition. I'm sharing a DSL connection using a linkys 4
port wired router on the firt floor bridged with a
wireless router down in the basement of the house so that
one computer (the xp home laptop) can access the
network/internet wirelessly. My main computer named
(dell) on the network has some information that I would
like to access from anywhere in the network but only by
means of passwords. For instance, if i want to access a
folder on the (dell) computer from my laptop (Pimp) I
would like to recieve a prompt for a user name and
password to view that folder. I would like to give
permissions for certain computers on he network to have
access to only the folders permitted by my user policy on
the (dell) computer. The router is acting as my DHCP
server, I don't think I need it for my purposes but I
really don't know how to set this up. I tried a few
things and failed. Please point me in the right

direction for help.


Thank you

Eddie Lopez
(e-mail address removed)

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[Jeremy]

Network shares for XP are normally authenticated by your login. Meaning
depending on how you log on to pimp would determine what you could access on
dell. Only time our users get asked for a password is when they logon to
there client. When they connect to a share even through my network places,
if they have access it only authenticates to there login. Not like how
win9x did shares where you could
specify passwords for a specific folder, and everytime you connected or
opened it, it would prompt you for a password. A cool thing about XP I've
found though, if you are using a user account that is not on the computer
you are connecting to, it will prompt you for a username and password. So
if you were logged on as pimpmaster on pimp. Shared a folder on dell called
pimps stuff, but there was no user account on dell called pimpmaster it will
open a dialog box asking for a user name and password. If users dellmaster
was on dell and you entered dellmaster as user and dellmasters password it
will let you login. I find this handy when on a clients pc and need to pull
something in a restricted folder off our domain controller, because I can
login as admin to that folder. Mostly I connect to a hidden drive like
\\dell\d$ or \\dell\patches$ a folder not seen by the peeps but accessed
from map network drive or the run command.