Re: Share protection in XP Home ?

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:47:54 -0500

adl wrote:
> Is it possible with XP Home to share a folder with ONLY a
> selected set of other computers/users on the network? A
> friend has a network with 7 XP Pro systems, and 2 XP Home
> systems. He wants to share a folder on one XP Home system
> with the other XP Home system, but he doesn't want the XP
> Pro systems to be able to access the share. If not, will
> upgrading the Home to Pro address this requirement ?

You could use NTFS to limit access to the share via File/Folder permissions.
This would be user-level and the users/passwords would have to exist on the
machine doing the sharing as well as the machine using the share in order to
be "seamless" - otherwise, each user wanting to use the share will have to
know the correct username/password in order to access the share. 

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