Gary said:
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'.
