Hello everybody, I need a quick solution for this problem: I have 1 win2003 server and 15 computers using Win XP sp2. One the server I have 1 public folder and inside this folder I have 4000 subfolders all named with the visitors names. On the server, I only have one account named public and each computer is connected to the domain with this public account. Now the problem, I don't want visitors accessing others visitor's folder so I want to password protect them. Is there a mass folder random password protector tool? Or is there a better way to this? Thanks for your help! Guillaume

How are the 4,000 visitors connecting to the server? Are they all using 'public' as a user name and the same password?

Hi guapo, Yes all visitors are using the same public user with the same password! Thanks!

The only way I know is to separate each user using separate logins. After that's done, delete the public account.

If you're using a shared login, then all users will have access. If you were to password protect the documents in the folders, how would you convey that information to your visitors? The proper way to do this would be to create an account for each user, then assign folder access permissions accordingly. I'm really curious though as to what type of environment you're in that you have 4000 people accessing your Domain on only 15 computers. Life's more painless for the brainless.

I suspect a homework "environment." Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. -

Hi, It is a government place where young teens can come and get help to build their curriculum vitae and to find a job. So any of them can come back maybe 3 years later and update their CV and find another job. Thats why we have around 4000 folders. There is around 10 to 15 people each day and we got 7 social workers who are using 7 computers and who need to access these folders too. That's why I don't need any visitor to access other visitors data, and creating a user name for each visitor will be a too heavy structure. Thanks for your help guys!