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Tekka   10-02-2009 at 03:12:36 AM

I have a HTPC thats running Windows 7 Media Center and with a large hard drive full of media that I am sharing on a network.

In order to share the folder I had to set the permission to Everyone. The problem is I don't want anyone else on the my home network to be able to access that folder.

I only want my bedroom PC and office PC to be able to access that folder.

In the sharing and permissions property I am only able to see my own computer

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saint19   10-02-2009 at 04:24:29 PM

Uncheck in everyone all 3 options. You need add the users that can access to the sharer folder, to do this, you need 2 steps:

1- In sharing, share, permissions and add. In the white space, write the user that you want that have access the folder.

2- In security, is the same process that in the 1 step, uncheck the permission for everyone and add the users that you want to access the folder

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Tekka   10-02-2009 at 06:45:19 PM

The computer is not able to find any other users on the network. When I type in the account names of the other PC it says "Names Cannot be Found"

The computer is only looking for accounts on the same computer instead of the network.

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saint19   10-02-2009 at 06:50:57 PM

I suppose that you are working with a work_group and not a domain, right?


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Tekka   10-03-2009 at 06:15:24 AM

yes i am. Do i need to be working on a domain for it to work?

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saint19   10-04-2009 at 01:05:47 AM

The problem here, is that you try given access to users that log in in another computers but not in the computer that have the shared folder. This only works with a domain users, and you are working with a local users in each computer. The computer only recognize the users that log in in the computer.

A solution could be sharing the folder across MSN.

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