You need to create user accounts for users who access the shared folder in advance. This section describes the procedure for creating a new account on your computer. Even if you do not create a new account by following the procedures below, you can add a pre-registered account for users who are permitted to access the shared folder.
In such case, you need to create a password. Once the password is created, the user is prompted to type the password when logging on to a computer. Click [Start] on the Windows taskbar, right-click [My Computer]. Click [Manage] to open the [Computer Management] dialog box. In the [New User] dialog box, enter the user name in [User name]. Enter the password in [Password]. Re-enter the password in [Confirm password].
Enter a user name not longer than 20 alphanumeric characters, and a password not longer than 14 alphanumeric characters. Setting a Shared Folder and Access Permissions. Once you create the account on your computer, create a shared folder. Add the created account to the shared folder as a user who is permitted to access that folder.
Set access permissions so that the user can that folder as well. If you only want them to be able to read the files, uncheck Allow network users to change my files.
You can turn it off and use the advanced file sharing features, such as NTFS file permissions. Click on the View tab and then scroll all the way to the bottom of the list until you see the checkbox Use Simple File Sharing recommended.
Go ahead and un-check the box and now when you go to the Sharing and Security tab for a folder, you will see advanced share options and the Security tab, which lets you configure NTFS permissions.
If this was all too complicated for you, you can check out online storage services like Dropbox, a cloud service for storing and sharing files between computers.
Founder of Help Desk Geek and managing editor. I want a shared folder that can be access by anyone without typing in a username and password. This means that every time I boot up a workstation I need to manually type in the username and password just to look into the mapped network drive.
Our programs use the network drives and they don't work unless we have already logged in, in explorer or whatever. Hope you see what I'm asking. Make the computer domain members, and when they login with a domain account you wont have this problem. Or create accounts on the server with the same name and password that is used on the client systems - this is the Workgroup style setup.
I figured that using a domain and having all of the computers connect to the domain would work, but I have never set that up and I'm not sure if I would use any other features or if I am looking at more possible problems. So to see if I understand the workgroup idea. I can make the user on each computer 'client' for example and then give permissions to 'client' on the server and then there shouldn't be a problem with accessing the folder.
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