Re: Password on a Shared Folder

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From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 12:53:06 -0600

In article <uQltIYzPEHA.2704@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, Bob Willard
<BobwBSGS@TrashThis.comcast.net> wrote:
>It is really a shame that the XP gang did not implement the W9x scheme of
>passwords for shares. Since XP has been marketed as the successor to W9x,
>and lots of W9x users had networks which counted on shares for passwords,
>there has been a steady stream of unhappy W9x-XP migrants.

I agree. "Simple file sharing", which has no access control, is
simply awful. All of the suggestions that I make for how to control
access (hidden shares, compressed folders, password on Guest account,
etc) are kludgey ways to overcome a bad design. 

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