XP Home Folder Permissions

[Guest]

Hi All,

I'm using XP Home on my desktop and 2 laptops. All NTFS. They all connect
thru wifi. On the desktop, I booted in Safe Mode and saw that the Admin
folder and subfolders are all marked private. I want to set it up so one of
the laptops can use one of the private folders (under Admin) on the desktop,
but not the other laptop. How do I make this happen? How do set up a user so
that when the laptop wants to access the private folder, it will have
permission?

Did I explain my problem OK?

Thanks!

Tom

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You can't do that in XP Home as it uses simple file sharing where users
access the computer as guest and need everyone permissions for the share and
folder/NTFS. In XP Pro you can give that granular access to network shares.
About the best you can do in XP Home is to configure the Windows Firewall
file and print sharing exception to allow access from only the IP addresses
you specify in the scope which is not a real good security method for most
networks as all a user has to do is to configure their computer with the
needed IP address to get access if they want to take the time to figure that
out. You could also do the same with ipsec but you can only configure ipsec
in XP Home via the command line.

Steve