"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi Thomas,
>
> Sounds like you enabled sharing on the root, not just the folder. There
> are two main ways you can do this:
>
> 1) Place the folder you wish to share in the public folders directory. In
> the Control Panel/Network and Sharing Center, enable network discovery and
> public folder sharing only.
>
> 2) In the folder's properties, enable network sharing. In the Network and
> Sharing Center, enable network discovery and file sharing only.
>
> Passwording is applied across the board, not to individual shares.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
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>
> "Thomas" <nonegiven@none.com> wrote in message
> news:KKURl.29762$yr3.6798@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com...[color=green]
>> Hello. I have two Vista machines on a home network. One is wired and
>> one is wireless. I do a lot of music work on both computers and there is
>> really only one folder that I want to share. I keep all the music in
>> that folder and sometimes when I'm away from the desktop and in another
>> room, it would be easier for me to access that folder instead of having
>> to get up and use a jump drive to transfer something over. Ok..enough of
>> my life story.
>>
>> I went to that folder on my desktop and right clicked it and did share.
>> It really does not seem as easy as XP was for something like this but I
>> thought I had it shared. What I wanted was to share it with a password
>> but when I did that option it also put a password on the printers and I
>> did not want that so I gave up on the password. When I went back to the
>> couch what I found was that my whole computer is shared. There is not a
>> file on my desktop that I can not access from my laptop on my couch. I
>> guess that's ok but it's not really what I wanted. My network is
>> encrypted, if that means anything these days but I would really like to
>> share ONE folder like I used to do with XP. Also XP would put a hand on
>> the folder so you knew it was being shared. This does not seem to be the
>> case in Vista. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>> Tom[/color][/color]

Thank you for the help. I seemed to have solved half the problem. The
folder I am sharing is a folder in "My Documents". It does have the little
icon on it now that show it is being shared. The problem is that when I
access it from my laptop all the folders in My Documents are able to be
opened, even the only one folder has the share icon. When I go the place
where it allows me to see all the folders being shared on the computer it
only shows the printer and the one folder that I want to share, which is
correct but yet I can access any folder in m documents. My documents is not
in the public area but in the "Tom" area. Im still not quite there yet.
Thanks.

Tom[color=blue]
>[/color]