How do you assign permissions to local network users on other m/cs?

I expect this sounds like a daft question, but it has had me puzzled for
some time after I began experimenting with file sharing and a new home
network.

Setting up a network via a router, between laptop and pc, I found that the
pc had access to the laptop's shared folder but the laptop could not access
files on the pc. [pc runs XP Pro: laptop XP Home.]

Experimenting with the permissions via the security tab on the pc's folder,
I found that I could only specify users on the pc. No provision seems to
have been made to give a permission to a user on another m/c.

The only way I could get around this was to add 'everyone' to the
permissions, which seemed a pretty dumb way to achieve the desired share.
Eventually I went back to square one, and ran the network set up wizard on
both machines again, and indeed both could then see the other's shared
folder. However, on checking the permissions, I find that the wizard too
has achieved this by simply adding 'everyone' to the permissions list!

How can I get around this and specify only particular users of a second
machine to be able to access the first, when there seems to be no way to
enter details of another m/c in either the permissions or the map drive
dialogues?

Apologies, but to a newbie on the subject, this all seems rather counter
intuitive compared with other Windows functions/facilities.

Grateful to anyone who can explain this for me.

Cheers,

S


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