Hi,

First of all I just want to say that I tried look into this myself. But I can't find anything about it.

I'm testing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 at home and my parents and my sister got one computer, but i got different shares for them with password protection. The problem is that when for example my parents login to their share you can't access the other shares, only says "Access Denied". I want it to ask for password, so you can access the other shares if you use the correct password. There must be a way to solve this, right?

I have looked in the Server 2008 server management but didn't find anything. Might be a solution in Windows XP, as it seems to keep the connection to the server even though you closed that window. But would be easier to set up something server-side?

Thanks in advance for any help

You need to understand about permissions on shared files.

You dont say if youre running the server as a domain controller or for some reason as a mere member in a peer-peer relationship with other computers. I would guess from your question its not a domain controller.

The easiest simplest way, but by no means the best, is going to be to make users with the same names and passwords on the host computer (the one hosting the shares) as those that are on the computers accessing the shares - then right click the shared folder - hit the security tab and drop in the names of those with rights to access - also after doing this ensure that in the permissions on the shared folder tab that these names are visible

after this go to the computer from where the shares are going to be accessed - right click "my computer" then map a drive to the share

Edited September 21, 200817 yr by docmarten

You need to understand about permissions on shared files.

You dont say if youre running the server as a domain controller or for some reason as a mere member in a peer-peer relationship with other computers. I would guess from your question its not a domain controller.

The easiest simplest way, but by no means the best, is going to be to make users with the same names and passwords on the host computer (the one hosting the shares) as those that are on the computers accessing the shares - then right click the shared folder - hit the security tab and drop in the names of those with rights to access - also after doing this ensure that in the permissions on the shared folder tab that these names are visible

after this go to the computer from where the shares are going to be accessed - right click "my computer" then map a drive to the share

Yea, I thought about this aswell, as my last option kinda. I guess there are no easy way to just prompt for a password whenever accessing a share then. The server is just running as a member of a Windows network, as I'm not all that familiar with domain control etc. I'll just map the drives then I guess

Thanks for your answer!