Sharing folders

[Ho0htEe the nyght ow1]

I want do to domething that was incredibly easy on Windows 3.x, 9x and NT
but "seems" impossible on XP Pro. I want to share a folder on my workgroup
and password protect it so that other users can't access it unless they have
the password.

The PCs are on a workgroup and all PCs have only one user account, named for
the person who has exclusive use of that PC. e.g "Tom", "Dick" or Harry". I
want to be able to go to one of the other PCs and access the E: drive on my
PC when I need to do software installations or upgrades but I don't want the
users of those PCs to be able to access the E: drive on my PC when I'm not
around.

Under previous versions of Windows all I had to do was share a drive and
allocate a password to that share. Then I could go to another PC, connect to
the share using the password and then disconnect when I was finished. I'd
like to be able to do something similar under XP.

I've created a share but there seems no way to allocate a password, even
after I disabled SFS so how do I do it? TIA.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

XP security is much more transparent than that. Users are not forced to
remember multiple passwords for multiple resources.

You grant access to any user or group using the Permissions button on the
Sharing and Security tab
(Home needs to be in Safe Mode as default admin to see that )
Pro needs to uncheck 'use simple file sharing' on the view tab of explorer
options (unless it is the default share folders)

Permissions, add, advanced, 'find names' buttons