Help: Shared Folder Access Restriction

I am not sure people have asked this question before, but i have this question in mind for so long. I remember in windows 2k (and probably in windows 98), there's a feature that you can lock a folder or file with password when you want to share a specific folder or file within a workgroup/LAN, so that only people who have the password can access to the protected folder or file.

As workgroup users are growing in my company, disk/file sharing becomes a very handy issue, because some of the users are not allowed to access some highly confidential files.

I know that in client-server environment, the network administrator can control the file sharing easily; however, if i am not mistaken (please correct me if i were wrong), in LAN environment, either Windows XP Pro or Home does not have the password protection feature in file sharing. Or, anyone of you know how, in XP's environment, to set password to a specific folder in the shared drive, please teach me how to do so.

I really appreciate your help.

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I believe it is the same as with local users..
When your connected to a domain and share a folder you can set restrictions as mentioned above, only you can also select domain users.

You can also create an organizational unit and give a group of users acces to a network share or any other network resources.

You can create organizational units in your Active Directory under 'Users and Computers'.

Try creating a local user on two PCs with exactly the same name and password. You should be able to log onto PC1 and then connect to PC2 if PC2 has been permissioned correctly.