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XP LAN Networking
Name: Marek Date: August 11, 2002 at 23:35:30 Pacific
Comment:
When you set up 2 0r 3 XP machine on a LAN network and you can share & transfer files, how do you set the passwords and permissions for the Drives, folders & files you want to share for each user ??
Name: princecorum Date: August 11, 2002 at 23:47:16 Pacific
Reply:
open my computer,right click each drive, and open"sharing and security
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Response Number 2
Name: Marek Date: August 11, 2002 at 23:51:48 Pacific
Reply:
Yeah i know, but where to you specify or set the password !!!!
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Response Number 3
Name: John Date: August 12, 2002 at 00:15:14 Pacific
Reply:
For each user?.....Only in NTdomain.
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Response Number 4
Name: michael Date: August 12, 2002 at 06:04:22 Pacific
Reply:
For a peer to peer network, uncheck the "Use Simply File Sharing" in the Tools, Folder options, View tab (down at the bottom). This is only for the XP Pro version, Home doesn't work the same way (see XP post 27171 for one way of doing it).
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Response Number 5
Name: Marek Date: August 12, 2002 at 13:43:52 Pacific
Summary: Ok.. First of all I doubt that Netbeui is required for XP and 98 to see each other or share files. I have a couple of small lans here of 4 people 2 with 98 and 2 (including me ) with xp pro and all ...
Summary: I currently have an xp pro network all with simple file sharing disabled. one computer is giving me a problem. it was recently formatted and had xp pro reinstalled and now it has internet and network ...
Summary: Hello, I am trying to set a simple network between 2 pc's win98 and xp. My needs are only file sharing between the 2 machines. I have run the network wizard from the xp with the option: "This computer...
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