Hi,
I am hoping something is possible as I have been put in charge of sorting it out for my office and need some assisstance with it
The situation... 3 PC's which I have set up on a wireless network. They are successfully sharing 2 printers and files between each.
PC's 1 + 2 are on XP Pro
PC 3 is on XP Home
I need PC's 1 + 2 to be able to share files with each other, and be able to access all files on PC 3
PC 3 is the problem - we dont want PC 3 to be able to access any files on 1 + 2 (but as stated before, 1 + 2 need to be able to get at 3 - otherwise i'd just remove it from the network)
I had assumed it would be nice and easy to password protect the shared folders and just not tell worker from PC 3 the password - however it seems this seemingly obvious and desirable feature isn't present on Windows.
I then thought I'd be able to restrict access based on network IP... but can't find out how to get that working (2 PC's with XP Pro need to restrict access to just each other)
Now I am hoping that someone can either a) instruct me on how to do either of the above options or b) give me an alternative which would be just as functional.
Would really appreciate your help,
Regards,
Mark
PS - I am aware I can compress the shared folders into a ZIP file and then put a password the zip file... this results in the users of 1 + 2 having to input the password for every file they want to open any file within the zip file (of which there are a couple of hundred) so this particular solution is a bit awkward as the files are accessed all the time every day.
I am hoping something is possible as I have been put in charge of sorting it out for my office and need some assisstance with it
The situation... 3 PC's which I have set up on a wireless network. They are successfully sharing 2 printers and files between each.
PC's 1 + 2 are on XP Pro
PC 3 is on XP Home
I need PC's 1 + 2 to be able to share files with each other, and be able to access all files on PC 3
PC 3 is the problem - we dont want PC 3 to be able to access any files on 1 + 2 (but as stated before, 1 + 2 need to be able to get at 3 - otherwise i'd just remove it from the network)
I had assumed it would be nice and easy to password protect the shared folders and just not tell worker from PC 3 the password - however it seems this seemingly obvious and desirable feature isn't present on Windows.
I then thought I'd be able to restrict access based on network IP... but can't find out how to get that working (2 PC's with XP Pro need to restrict access to just each other)
Now I am hoping that someone can either a) instruct me on how to do either of the above options or b) give me an alternative which would be just as functional.
Would really appreciate your help,
Regards,
Mark
PS - I am aware I can compress the shared folders into a ZIP file and then put a password the zip file... this results in the users of 1 + 2 having to input the password for every file they want to open any file within the zip file (of which there are a couple of hundred) so this particular solution is a bit awkward as the files are accessed all the time every day.