Re: Selective file shareing

From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 01/22/05


Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:51:11 -0700

In article <u76auEFAFHA.1300@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>, "Shamit Manchanda"
<shamit@manchanda.net> wrote:
>I have about 5 computers on a peer to peer network Say they are called A,
>B, C , D , E - I want A & B to be able to share the resource but not C, D &
>E. The moment you share a resource it becomes available to everyone. This
>was very conviniently done under win 98 but in Win XP pro there is no way of
>assigning individual passwords to resources even with Simple File Sharing
>disabled.

It isn't possible to control access based on computer names in any
version of Windows.

With simple file sharing disabled, XP Pro has a very flexible and
powerful way to control access based on user names. Ron Lowe and I
have written a web page with full details:

Windows XP Professional File Sharing
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm

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