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

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]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"Thomas" <nonegiven@none.com> wrote in message
news:KKURl.29762$yr3.6798@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com...[color=blue]
> 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]

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:%237w%23DM92JHA.4368@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> 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]
> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
> My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]
>
> "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]