I have a several computers on a small network. These computers are shared with several users of that network. There is one computer that acts as a file server. They all run on windows XP Pro. Is it possible to password protect the shared folders on the file server? What i really want is once user try to gain access to the shared folder on the file server he or she will have to supply a password.
I'm talking about across the network, not on the local computer. To make a folder private in Windows XP: 1. Click Start, and then click My Computer.
Open TweakUI. In the TweakUI window, select Explorer 3. Share Share Tweet Email. Related Topics Answers. Hi I have xp pro with ntfs, but there is no option Make folder private. I have followed the same method to protect my pdf file with password. Your email address will not be published.
Close Menu Tech Tips and Tricks. Free Softwares. Windows Tips. When you would want some folders to be protected? Requirement: Nothing but only windows xp on any file system. Download Hide Files and Folder Locking Utility For Win Xp If you have any problem in locking the folders in windows xp with a password using any of the above method please leave a comment here i will be glad to answer you.
Please give me an advice regarding this Thank You! I have one problem, I have make the partition in my hard drive C,D,E,f respectively now i want to make the F drive lock which can not be opened by any one else except the administrator login.
To begin, open Windows Explorer and navigate to the file you want to protect. Right-click on the file, select Send To , then select Compressed zipped Folder. A new folder will be created, with an icon showing a zipper on a file. Double-click to open the zipped folder, click File , then Add a Password. Enter the password twice and press OK.
You're done, except that you now have the original file, and the zipped file with password. So delete the original file. From now on, when you open the zipped folder, Windows will prompt you for the password. I should mention that you can generalize this process a bit, by first creating a zipped folder with a password, then adding a whole bunch of files to it. This way, you can have one password protected folder for all your sensitive files, instead of creating a zipped folder for each file.
To do so, right-click in the empty space on the desktop or in any open folder , select New, and then click Compressed zipped Folder. Enter a name for the compressed folder, press ENTER, and you'll see a new folder icon marked with a zipper.
Add a password like we did above. Now you can use drag and drop to move one or many files to the password protected folder. If you have Windows XP Professional, there is another option to turn on passwords for shared folders.
It involves disabling the "Simple File Sharing" option the default in XP and then creating additional user accounts on your computer, which can be authorized to access certain shared folders with a password. It's ugly, arcane, and it doesn't really do what we want to do add a password to a single file , so I'm not going to go into detail on this.
If you're motivated and a tad geeky, you can read this additional information on password protecting a folder in XP Pro. There are some programs available that claim to add password protection to Windows XP files and folders, but I have not tried any of them. If you have, post a comment below This article was posted by Bob Rankin on 22 May Posted by: krunal 30 May If you email a file from a "locked" folder to someone, that file can be opened without a password.
Posted by: Jay 05 Jun This did not work for me. There is such an option under "Add", but even after entering the password twice, I was still able to open both the.
I have WinZip 8. In Winzip, I found that using the "Encrypt" option does prompt for a password. Posted by: paul 22 Nov Posted by: g 25 Nov Typically these programs use a brute force guesswork approach, sometimes with hints from the person who forgot the password.
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