[vistar123]

Hey,

I know how to share a drive, and set permissions. But just the basics. I have a wireless router with 2 PCs and a laptop.

One PC and the laptop is my own and I'd like to share one of my drives between my PC and my laptop, but not the 2nd PC. So all I want to do is give permission for 'laptop' (my laptops computer name) to access it, but not the 2nd PC.

However in the permission bit it only seems to allow me to make permissions for local users, not those on the network, in other words I can do Upstairs\Bob, Upstairs\Etc but anything relating to 'laptop' is out of the question. I noticed the 'Locations' button but this only shows Upstairs, not laptop - and yes its plugged in and I have turned network discovery on, including file sharing on.

Any ideas? Failing that is there maybe a way of password protecting it?

[unbidden]

You could put the 2nd pc on a different workgroup name or disable sharing on the 2nd pc. Either way the 2nd pc will still be able to access the internet.

There are other options, but it depends on the versions of Vista, XP, or ? that you are running.

[DaveBurnett]

Many routers allow you to group/isolate users.

I have all my own local machines in a none default group so that should I attach a client machine that I'm working on, it cannot SEE any of my network but can attach to ADSL.

[TheOutcaste]

When you set permissions, you are granting permissions for a set of credentials. The PCname\Username format means simply "Look on PCname for the credentials, the credentials to look for are Username."

If you grant permission for Upstairs\Bob, when you try to access that folder from the laptop, it should prompt for a user name and password. Enter Upstairs\Bob for user name and the password for the Bob account on Upstairs PC as the password.

If the laptop has an account named Bob with the same password as the Bob account on the PC named Upstairs, it should let you right in without prompting.

If the laptop has an account named Bob, but the password is different, it will keep telling you the password is wrong, but will never prompt you to enter it.

If you need to have the same account name on both PCs but need the passwords to be different, create a new account on the Upstairs PC with a name used only for sharing, and then only grant that name access.

HTH

Jerry