{"id":247,"date":"2021-08-30T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2021-10-05T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:00:07","slug":"windows-xp-professional-file-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/windows-xp-professional-file-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP Professional File Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the handy features of Windows XP (and Windows 2000, for that matter) compared to earlier Windows versions like 95\/98\/Me is its support for user-level security, which gives you fine control over who can access what information on a system. In this article, we&#8217;ll show you how to set up your Windows XP Professional computer so you can\u00a0share\u00a0files and folders with other Windows computers on a network, while making sure\u00a0that only desired users have access.<\/p>\n<p>In Windows 95\/98\/Me, you share data by\u00a0assigning a password to a shared\u00a0folder,\u00a0and anyone that\u00a0knows the password can gain access to the data.\u00a0 That may be adequate\u00a0in a small home network where, for example, Mom and Dad know the password to the family&#8217;s financial data, but Junior doesn&#8217;t.\u00a0 But it isn&#8217;t practical in a\u00a0networks with lots of potential\u00a0users, since\u00a0it&#8217;s hard to keep a password secret amongst\u00a0a large group of people.<\/p>\n<p>Windows XP Professional replaces password-based security with two alternatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Simple File Sharing\u00a0<\/b>is enabled by default on Windows XP Professional systems that are members of a workgroup (typically used in small networks) rather than a domain (typically used in large corporate networks).\u00a0 For full details, see our article on\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/sharing\/xp\/filesharing.htm\">Simple File Sharing<\/a><\/u>. There are no passwords or access restrictions and, with one exception described in the article, everything that&#8217;s shared is accessible by everyone on the network.\u00a0 Simple File Sharing is the only type of sharing available in Windows XP Home Edition.<\/li>\n<li>By disabling Simple File Sharing, you can specify an\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/06acl.htm\">Access Control List<\/a><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/06acl.htm\">\u00a0(ACL)\u00a0<\/a>for each shared disk or folder.\u00a0 Using an\u00a0ACL gives you much greater control over shared data, since it lets you\u00a0determine the specific\u00a0users that will have access as well as\u00a0the\u00a0level of access they will receive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll show you how to configure Windows XP Professional to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/01disablesimplesharing.htm\">Disable Simple File Sharing<\/a>\u00a0for increased security and control;<\/li>\n<li>Create\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/02createusers.htm\">user accounts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/04usergroups.htm\">user groups<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/05createshares.htm\">Share a disk or folder<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Set up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/06acl.htm\">Access Control Lists<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Allow network access by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/03userpasswords.htm\">users without passwords<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To illustrate the concepts, we&#8217;ll:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create user accounts for four people: Alasdair, Fraser, Iona, and Catriona;<\/li>\n<li>Create shared folders called\u00a0<i>Girlstuff<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Boystuff<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Kidstuff<\/i>, which will allow different levels of access to different people.\u00a0\u00a0<i>Boystuff<\/i>\u00a0will be accessible to Alasdair and Fraser,\u00a0<i>Girlstuff<\/i>\u00a0will be accessible to Iona and Catriona, and\u00a0<i>Kidstuff<\/i>\u00a0will accessible to them all;<\/li>\n<li>See how the users access the shared folders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, we&#8217;ll show you how to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/08clientconnect.htm\">access Windows XP Professional&#8217;s shared disks and folders<\/a>\u00a0from another client computer on the network, adding some information about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/07ntfs-permisions.htm\">file permissions in the NTFS file system<\/a>, and giving solutions for some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/11trouble.htm\">common network access problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the handy features of Windows XP (and Windows 2000, for that matter) compared to earlier Windows versions like 95\/98\/Me is its support for user-level security, which gives you fine control over who can access what information on a system. In this article, we&#8217;ll show you how to set up your Windows XP Professional computer so you can\u00a0share\u00a0files and folders with other Windows computers on a network, while making sure\u00a0that only desired users have access. In Windows 95\/98\/Me, you share data by\u00a0assigning a password to a shared\u00a0folder,\u00a0and anyone that\u00a0knows the password can gain access to the data.\u00a0 That may <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}