Share a Folder over SMB?

[Justin]

My co workers and I are at a hotel with internet access. I can see
other people's network shares; obviously I don't want to do into them.
We have to transfer several files that are HUGE, more than a gig each.
How can I share a folder on my XP Pro machine so that it has a password?
I have disabled simple network file sharing.
The files are so big using a DVD-RW is not practical. The Hotel has
100BT RJ45 so transferring the files shouldn't take all that long.

 

[Malke]

My co workers and I are at a hotel with internet access. I can see
other people's network shares; obviously I don't want to do into them.
We have to transfer several files that are HUGE, more than a gig each.
How can I share a folder on my XP Pro machine so that it has a password?
I have disabled simple network file sharing.
The files are so big using a DVD-RW is not practical. The Hotel has
100BT RJ45 so transferring the files shouldn't take all that long.

Better not to share that way at the hotel. I don't know why you wouldn't
burn a DVD+/-R (not RW which brings other issues). A DVD holds 4.7GB and so
is perfect for your 1-2GB files. Another alternative is to purchase a
crossover cable and temporarily create a machine-to-machine network. Give
one machine a static IP of something like 192.168.1.1 and the other one
192.168.1.2. Enable file/printer sharing. Connect both computers together
with the crossover ethernet cable and transfer your files. You can also use
USB thumb drives although the transfer to the drive and from the drive to
the other computer will be slowish. I still think burning a DVD or two is
easier.

Malke

 

[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
There are few ways to resolve such issue.
The fastest is the direct connect (as suggested by Malke above).
Otherwise, depending on the Firewall that is installed on each computer you
can read the IP numbers of both computers and restrict for the duration the
LAN traffic (Trusted Zone) to allow only the two IPs that are assigned to
your two computers.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

 

[Justin]

Better not to share that way at the hotel. I don't know why you wouldn't
burn a DVD+/-R (not RW which brings other issues). A DVD holds 4.7GB and so
is perfect for your 1-2GB files. Another alternative is to purchase a
crossover cable and temporarily create a machine-to-machine network. Give
one machine a static IP of something like 192.168.1.1 and the other one
192.168.1.2. Enable file/printer sharing. Connect both computers together
with the crossover ethernet cable and transfer your files. You can also use
USB thumb drives although the transfer to the drive and from the drive to
the other computer will be slowish. I still think burning a DVD or two is
easier.

Malke

We enabled file and printer sharing, and put ourselves in our own little
workgroup. We also had the folders password protected.
Basically I set my machine up as the server because I brought all the
tiles with me - about 10 gigs total.
Once everyone had the files they needed, we went out drinking.
Then played some UT 2004...

 

[Malke]

We enabled file and printer sharing, and put ourselves in our own little
workgroup. We also had the folders password protected.
Basically I set my machine up as the server because I brought all the
tiles with me - about 10 gigs total.
Once everyone had the files they needed, we went out drinking.
Then played some UT 2004...

Thanks for updating the thread.

Malke

 

[Justin]

Hi
There are few ways to resolve such issue.
The fastest is the direct connect (as suggested by Malke above).
Otherwise, depending on the Firewall that is installed on each computer
you can read the IP numbers of both computers and restrict for the
duration the LAN traffic (Trusted Zone) to allow only the two IPs that
are assigned to your two computers.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

Hi Jack, it looks like my initial estimate as to how big these files are
was incorrect, each one can be four gigs - I kid you not. They're
AutoCAD files.
Basically what I would like to do is set up a file share on one machine
with a password. Remember back in the Win98 days when you would click
in Network Neighborhood go though each person's machine and see their
shares? You would double click and get prompted for a password.
I think I can set that up here, but the problem is the username and
password to get into another machine;'s shared folder is the same as the
users set up on that machine - which is different for each person.

The solution I have right now is I;'m setting my Macbook as an FTP
server, they're dumping their ridiculously huge files onto it and useing
my machine as a file server. This won't always work because they are
constantly changing the files and have to re-download them from each
other constantly.
Normally at the office they would all be accessing each file sitting on
our fileserver.
We tried having a VPN but that was too slow - imaging opening a 1+ gig
file over a 100KB hotel link while the real estate novelist down the
hall downloads Youtube videos of his grandkids on a swing for 45 minutes.
So for now the file sharing idea is my best solution. They won't
understand crossover cables - they're sales.
I barely got them to use FTP through IE.