My situation is I am in a LAN and sharing folders over it. There are 2 workgroups on LAN(say A and B) and I'm in workgroup A with another computer of my friend's. My shared folders are accessible from all computers on LAN include computers in workgroup B. However, now I want to limit it so that only computers in my workgroup can access my shared folders and files. ok, these are what I wanna do:- 1) no computers from other workgroup can access my shared files except my own workgroup. 2) I don't like to type password everytime I logon my system so it's better I don't need to set up one for my account. Any suggestion how i can make this work? thx in advance

1) Yep, create a user account on your PC for the person(s) you wish to allow to connect to your shares. The account should use the exact same authentication information (ie: username/password) used to logon to the other PC(s) at bootup. Add that account to the ACL on shares you wish to grant them access to. Remove all groups from shares and only add the ones you wish to grant access to....like your administrator account, your personal account (very important right, don't want to lock yourself out). This will prevent just anyone from accessing shares except for those you explicitly grant access to. Using the same username/password for accounts will stop them from having to authenticate. 2) Sorry, I have to stop laughing first........ ............................................ Whew! Ok, got myself under control again. I imagine that few seconds of typing in your password is valuable to you. You'll excuse me though as this is not secure as it allows ANYONE in the world to walk up to your PC and use it. So if you want to allow the world direct access to your PC, why are you worrying about remote access?