Hard Drive Sharing in Vista

[JMesser91]

Okay. I have hardwired desktop with two hard drives. One has the operating system and all my programs on it. The other is for data storage. I want to share the data storage hard drive over my home network. I was able to set this up and now all computers on my network can access the hard drive.

Now, the problem is that I don't want everyone to have full access. The only computer I want to have full access is my laptop. I don't want my parents and siblings to have full access to these files, just be able to read the files.

Additionally I kinda want to set it up so that my laptop has full access family and friends have read access, and everyone else on my network has no access (like my sister's friends and what not).

Please let me know how I could accomplish this as I could not figure it out myself.

Thanks!

[shadowpr]

I'm not on my vista partition now, but I believe you would have to use user names and creat one for all the users you want to have complete access for. they set the permissions for everyone else as read only.

If you have guests, you will probably have to get user names for everyone and set them at read only as well, and then put everyone as no access.