[Bort]

Hi guys and girls

Our network has 6 computers on it. 5 are running Vista Home Premium, and the other is running XP Home. On the XP machine, i have set up accounts which match the details of those on the Vista machines (ie one XP account per Vista machine). What I would like to do is set up the accounts on the XP machine, so only the person with the same account on a Vista machine can access it, so we can use the XP machine as a central file storage area, but still have personal folders for each user on the network.

From the Vista machines, we can see all of the shared folders on the XP machine, but the only folder we can access is the standard SharedDocs folder. This is handy since we can use it to store files that everyone needs access to, but how can I set up the other folders so only the corresponding network user can access it?

Is there anything I can change on the Vista machines that will prompt us for login details if someone tries to access their folder? I went to have a look at setting the permissions on the XP machine, but because it is Home edition, I cannot access the shared permissions.

Thanks guys

Bort

[Trakker]

is this for a home or office network?
If this is for a business I'd strongly recommend purchasing a license for at least XP Pro. Is this the only function of this computer?

If it's for a home environment, you could use a folder protection program that makes it so you have to have a password to access the folder. Each user sets their own password on their folder, and that way they're the only ones that can access it. I'd reccomend a program but It's late and google is up 24/7 (also I'm sure there was a thread a few weeks ago that someone recommended a program that does just that.)