Password protect shared network folder

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Hi!
I've looked high up and low down but am unable to resolve
this problem. On Win2K, i share several of my folders on a
network. For one of these folders, i want to be able to
specify a password that a user must specify every time
they want to access the folder. I've tried several
lock/hide/password folder applications, but they all hide
the folder. I want the folder visible, but just that any
user who tries to access it is prompted for a password.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!
 
As far as I can remember, that functionality never existed in Windows NT
based machines. The closest you can get to prompting for a username and
password is by restricting the file and folder permissions to exclude
Everyone, and adding only the users you want to access the folder. If a
user who isn't in the list tries to access the resource, he or she is
prompted for a username and a password, then they would have to put in a
valid username/password combination (that's in the file/folder permissions
for that share) and would then gain access.

Rich
 
Richard Fleming (Remove .nospam) said:
As far as I can remember, that functionality never existed in Windows NT
based machines. The closest you can get to prompting for a username and
password is by restricting the file and folder permissions to exclude
Everyone, and adding only the users you want to access the folder. If a
user who isn't in the list tries to access the resource, he or she is
prompted for a username and a password, then they would have to put in a
valid username/password combination (that's in the file/folder permissions
for that share) and would then gain access.

Rich
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Hello,
i'm affraid that's not true because, when user, who isn't in the list, try
to access this folder, will be notify with "access deny" notification.

pavel
 
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