File sharing

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Paul Ooi

I am a Windows XP user and am currently in a workgroup called SHALOM. I am
trying to make the following work.

I wish to share 2 folders, which are PRIVATE and PUBLIC respectively, they
are both in a disk which has been formatted to NTFS. PUBLIC should be able
to be accessed by anyone in the network while PRIVATE should only be
accessed by certain people.

This is what I have done so far.

In the Security tab of the PUBLIC folder properties, i added PAUL\Guests
user group and in the Share Permissions tab i added PAUL\Guests user group
too. PUBLIC now can be accessed by anyone in the network without requiring
them to enter any password. The problem now is the PRIVATE folder which I
want to restrict some users to have access to it. I want Windows to prompt
the user to enter a username and password and if it matches one of the
restricted user accounts in my computer, then access is granted to them,
otherwise deny their access. How do I do that?

Thank you.

Paul
 
"Paul Ooi" said:
I am a Windows XP user and am currently in a workgroup called SHALOM. I am
trying to make the following work.

I wish to share 2 folders, which are PRIVATE and PUBLIC respectively, they
are both in a disk which has been formatted to NTFS. PUBLIC should be able
to be accessed by anyone in the network while PRIVATE should only be
accessed by certain people.

This is what I have done so far.

In the Security tab of the PUBLIC folder properties, i added PAUL\Guests
user group and in the Share Permissions tab i added PAUL\Guests user group
too. PUBLIC now can be accessed by anyone in the network without requiring
them to enter any password. The problem now is the PRIVATE folder which I
want to restrict some users to have access to it. I want Windows to prompt
the user to enter a username and password and if it matches one of the
restricted user accounts in my computer, then access is granted to them,
otherwise deny their access. How do I do that?

Thank you.

Paul
Click to expand...

Here's how XP Pro (with simple file sharing disabled) controls network
access works in a workgroup (not in a domain):

1. You define permitted users and their type of access for a shared
disk or folder. The user accounts must exist on the local computer.

2. Someone logs into another computer on the network specifying a user
name and password.

3. That person requests access to an XP Pro share.

4. XP Pro looks at the user name and password specified by that person
at login time. If it matches an account on the local computer, XP Pro
grants or denies access according to the pre-defined permissions for
that account.

5. If the user name and password don't match an account on the local
computer, XP Pro replies and asks for a different user name and
password.

6. If the client computer runs Windows 2000 or XP, it displays the
prompt to the user, who can enter another user name and password. If
the client computer runs Windows 95/98/Me, it displays the dreaded
IPC$ prompt, for which there's no correct reply.

This web site has details:

Windows XP Professional File Sharing
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm
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