Setting folder passwords

XP runs under the NT kernel, with NTFS file system. It is completely different from the Win9x line (including ME).
To set up Security on a folder in XP, you have to enable security first. If you have XP Home, this process is a little strange (I ranthis on an XPHome machine just a few weeks ago, and boy is it weird!).
There is a wizard that will enable security on XPHome. You have to run this wizard. What it will do is 1) partition the disk to NTFS if it wasn't already NTFS -- as opposed to FAT32 -- and then 2) enable the Security tab for each folder and file.
Once Security is enabled, you can build different users on the XP box, and assign the user accounts their own rights to this folder you are shaing out.
Then, when the clients try to connect, they (the Win9x clients) will be prompted for a user name and password. When they enter this in correctly, the remote clients will have only as much rights to the folder as their user accounts (the ones they just logged into the XP box with) are given.

The whole point of this is that you can't just put a password on a folder in XP. Security is now tighter, and better. You can giver user BOB change access, and user TOM read only access to the same folder!

hope this helps

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