I currently attend a university, and a lot of my friends want to copy files I have. I'm looking to make shared folders on Vista that are accessible to be to whom I give an account. I've set up this separate local account on my computer, and given that account read-only permission on each of the four folders I'm trying to share. When I'm on my friends computer, under some random account name, I see my computer on the network, and the four folders, but trying to open them gives a "don't have that permission" error, before a login screen ever allows him to login. I have about 8-10 friends I'm trying to set up here. If I make the folders non-password protected, everyone can locate them, but I don't want to do that, because I have limited bandwidth and don't want to get in trouble because people were downloading from my PC all day. I know that if I added each of these friends usernames to my own PC's list of users, they would be able to access the files, but that's a major pain in the ass. Why is a login screen not popping up when my friends map to my computer and try to open folders? The one central account they all know the name / password for is the route I want to go.