how to add name to file sharing permission

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Tiffany

Hi,

My office is using Window Vista. We are small business enterprise. I have
created a workgroup for all the people working here (only 4 of us). I have
some files which i want to share with some people. How can i add their names
in the file sharing permission. I tried but not able to do so. Can you help?

Thanks
 
sorry... to add, i did try to type in my colleague's computer name but it
return error and the error msg is "unable to locate user xxxxxx-PC". I
checked and the name is correct. What could have gone wrong?

Kindly advise
 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

Have a read of the above link re Vista File and Printer Sharing.

Permissions/Share info is there as well, down towaeds the bottom .

If using Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro I.S., make sure file and printer
sharing is enabled in THEIR firewall.

1st thing to do is make sure that the Workgroup Name of ALL the computers is
the SAME.

In Vista Network and Sharing:

Network Discovery: ON (So it can see the other computers)

Network set to Private (Public is for hotspots, airports, etc)

File Sharing: ON

Public Folder Sharing: ON (Vista’s Public Folder is the same as XP’s Shared
Docs)

Password Protected: OFF (unless you want to set up identical usernames and
passwords on ALL computers in your Network) If you have it ON, you will be
asked for a username and password when you try to access a Vista computer
from another computer.

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Tiffany said:
sorry... to add, i did try to type in my colleague's computer name but it
return error and the error msg is "unable to locate user xxxxxx-PC". I
checked and the name is correct. What could have gone wrong?

Kindly advise
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In a Workgroup (peer-to-peer; i.e., without a server) environment,
authentication is done on the local computer. You need to add matching user
accounts/passwords on all the machines and then the computer hosting the
shared resource will allow the connection from the computer requesting it.
With only four machines, this is not an onerous task.

You do not need to be logged into the same account on all machines and the
passwords assigned to each user account can be different; the
accounts/passwords just need to exist and match on all machines. If you
wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop (into one particular user's
account) for convenience, you can do this. The instructions at this link
work for both XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

Malke
 
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