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Please help - Password protecting files over a network?!

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by rich

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Hi everyone

I have a network of computers at a clients site with a desktop machine running XP pro as the server. The files sit on the server and everyone has a mapped drive to their own folders but at the moment can also get to each others files through network neighborhood.

Any thoughts? I need to stop people getting to each others files. Because they are not using a "server" as such they have no DC and the only help I can find is for machines on the same domain.
Help!

Thanks in advance

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by martyncoup

Try these...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290403
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301281
http://searchwindowssecurity.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid45_gci1083156,00.html

Or... (sorry about another edit), if they are members of the same workgroup then use this hint to get a security tab on folders.

To view the Security tab for a file or folder in XP, hold down the Ctrl key while right-clicking the file or folder, and select Properties. If you are in a domain instead of a workgroup, this approach is unnecessary.

by rich

Thanks very much buddy, I will read through that later. I kinda had an idea of how I wanted to do it and that just confirms it all and puts it in a procedure. :)

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