[Bridgecraft]

Salutations!

I noticed on some of my friends computers at school when I try to access their shared folders. I can not for I do not know the user name and password.

How do I set that for myself?

Thanks,

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Right click the folder, click sharing and security, tick make this folder private, click apply, set the password

You will need to make sure you remember it

[Retired Tech]

Right click the folder, click sharing and security, tick make this folder private, click apply, set the password

You will need to make sure you remember it

[Bridgecraft]

The "Make this folder private" check mark box is grayed out.

For your information I am using Windows XP Home SP2.

[Retired Tech]

Unless it is a system folder

Can you make a new folder in my documents and try then

[Bridgecraft]

Still no luck, does it matter that when I set up my XP account that I told it to make all my files private?

[Retired Tech]

I just looked on an XP Home with SP2 system and the only folders it would not make private were windows and programme files etc

Do you have to use a password now if the files are all private?

Are you an administrator on the PC

[Bridgecraft]

Yes I am the admin. No I do not use a password when all the files are private. But I use a password to login to my account.

[Retired Tech]

See if it linked to this

Level 1: My Documents (Private)

The owner of the file or folder has read and write permission to the file or folder. Nobody else may read or write to the folder or the files in it. All subfolders that are contained in a folder that is marked as private remain private unless you change the parent folder permissions.

If you are a Computer Administrator and create a user password for your account by using the User Accounts Control Panel tool, you are prompted to make your files and folder private.

Note The option to make a folder private (Level 1) is only available to a user account in its own My Documents folder

To configure a folder and all the files in it to Level 1, follow these steps:

1. Right-click the folder, and then click Sharing and Security.

2. Select the Make this Folder Private check box, and then click OK.
Local NTFS Permissions:

• Owner: Full Control

• System: Full Control

Network Share Permissions: • Not Shared

http://support.micro...kb/304040/en-us

[Bridgecraft]

But I still can not access the make this folder private check box.

[Retired Tech]

Are there other accounts on the PC

When they are logged in can they open your folders

[Bridgecraft]

They can not open my folders.

[Retired Tech]

Is that what you wanted in post 1

[Bridgecraft]

No. Okay. If you are on a local network with other computers some computer require you to input a user name and password before accessing the folders. These folders are shared however you have to have the person's permission to access their files.

I am talking about networking folders options sort of.

[Retired Tech]

Level 5: Shared on the network (Read and Write)

All the levels that this article describes are mutually exclusive. Private folders (Level 1) cannot be shared unless they are no longer private. Shared folders (Level 4 and 5) cannot be made private until they are unshared.

If you create a folder in the Shared Documents folder (Level 3), share it on the network, and then permit network users to change your files (Level 5), the permissions for Level 5 are effective for the folder, the files in that folder, and the child folders. The other files and folders in the Shared Documents folder remain configured at Level 3.

Note The only exception is if you have a folder (SampleSubFolder) that is shared at Level 4 inside a folder (SampleFolder) that is shared at Level 5. Remote users have the correct access level to each of the shared folders. Locally logged-on users have writable (Level 5) permissions to the parent (SampleFolder) and child (SampleSubFolder) folders

[Bridgecraft]

Okay! Makes since Thanks.