huddadudda
Technical User
I have been using simple file sharing on my computers network to transfer files between 4 computers and one server. Today I wanted to put a password and specific user name and password to be able to access one folder on the server and not allow people to access that folder without that info. So I turned off simple file sharing on all the machines. Then I went to properties of the folder I wanted to password protect on the server and removed the "everyone" under permissions and added a new user that was on that machine "sampleuser" - which had limited access but its own username and login on the server. I then went into Permissions -> Add -> Advanced -> Find Now -> then selected the user "sampleuser" - gave it full access then clicked ok and returned out. Now when I double click on that folder from my network places it says "\\server is not accessible you might not have the permission to use this network resource..... access denied" - Fine so I know its 1/2 way working as it wont let anyone in. But how can I enter the username and password?? The login box doesnt come up!? Usually if your on a client machine when you click on the folder you want access to the username and password box will appear and its not. The users and passwords are different from the pc I am trying to log in from so thats probably close to the issue because once I put the user "everyone" to have access to that folder it will let me into it and have access again. What I want is only people with that username and password to have access to that folder on the server but from any machine within my network. Can someone please enlighten me and help? Thanks in advance.
