Hard-drive sharing in xp-home

[Guest]

hi

In win98se i had the option to add a pasword when sharing a hard-drive on the home network. in my xp-home i can't find that option - so the access isn't password limited

I understand that the xp-pro contains something called "simple file sharing" option in the folder option menu (view), and disabling that option enables the password limited network access to the hard-drive. However, in my xp-home i just don't see that option in the menu

The question is, how can i enable the hard-drive password limitation in xp-home?

10x for the help
Roy.

 

[Bob Willard]

hi,

In win98se i had the option to add a pasword when sharing a hard-drive on the home network. in my xp-home i can't find that option - so the access isn't password limited.

I understand that the xp-pro contains something called "simple file sharing" option in the folder option menu (view), and disabling that option enables the password limited network access to the hard-drive. However, in my xp-home i just don't see that option in the menu.

The question is, how can i enable the hard-drive password limitation in xp-home?

10x for the help,
Roy.

You can't -- XP does not support network passwords for folders the way that
W9x does.

One simple work-around is to give the shared folder a hidden share name,
like SECRET$, and only tell your friends the secret. The trailing $
in the name means that the share name is not advertised on your LAN.

There are other ways, but the simple W9x scheme does not exist with XP.

 

[Guest]

10x for the help, but i'm afraid that's not the solution i need. i need the whole drive to be visible to all users on the network, but still inaccessible without the proper password. i thought the "simpe file sharing" system has something to do with that, but maybe i was wrong (and i don't see that option in my xp-home anyway). maybe if i'll use the NetBUI protocol i'll get such file managment control features? do you have other suggestions?