Sharing a hard drive?

[Der Alta]

Here's the situation.
I work on a LAN that connects to a main comupter used by our secretary. Everyone in the office (except me) is running windows 2000. I'm on XP. Sitting on my desk I have the main computer, and a laptop. Info is transfered quite often from one to the other.

Now my problem arises that I would like to be able to transfer info from my main computer to my laptop, but not have my laptop hard drive viewable by everybody on the LAN.

XP has this useless "simple sharing" ability that allows me to share my "Shared Documents" on the LAN, but it allows everyone to access it. What I'd like to do is share the Laptop hard drive in it's entirety with my main computer, but not with the entire LAN.

Can someone please give me a few hints at doing this?

Thanks,

AO

 

[LoudMusic]

You could set up a new user on your computer and share your hard drive to that user, then login from the laptop as that user. That's basically how it works.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

That's absolutely right. If you're logging in to the LAN (say to a server or other network drive), then you can share only to your user.

I can't really comment on XP, but if it's XP Pro, you should be able to do this with ease.

If you have access to an account with admin rights on the machine that's hosting the share, then you can connect to the admin share on the machine. So if you want to connect to the admin share of the C drive on machine 'talisker', you would just access \\talisker\c$. The $ sign signifies the admin-only nature of the share. The client machine should ask you to enter login credentials for the server machine when you access the share.

 

[Der Alta]

Thanks Guys! it worked!

AO

 

[rjensen11]

Yeah, what do you have for XP? Professional or Standard? I don't need to worry about that problem yet b/c it'll be 2.5 years until I graduate from HS, and right now our LAN is on CAT5, so we don't really have many opportunities for people to hack into our LAN.