Help with setting password

Dashakan · Mar 31, 2008

I want to share some files over an internal home network, but don't want them to be readily available to everyone. I know there is a way to set a password of some sort, because when I view workgroup computers in My Network Places another person on the network has a password on theirs when I double click it. Any insight into this?

EDIT - Sorry its XP Pro

plodr · Mar 31, 2008

http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/computing/faq.php?n=1751
that's the easiest...zip it up and include a password.

Give the person you will share the file with the password so he/she an unzip it.

Dashakan · Mar 31, 2008

plodr said: ↑

http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/computing/faq.php?n=1751
that's the easiest...zip it up and include a password.

Give the person you will share the file with the password so he/she an unzip it.
Click to expand...

Yeah, that wont work for my purpose. I did however figure out a way to disable simple file sharing and grant only certain login/password combinations permission to access certain folders.

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