Hi all,

I have a vista home premium machine on my network that I use as a server. I
have all my music and pictures etc on the D:\ driver in a folder structure
D:\homemedia\

I have setup a share on this folder I can see it on my network from all my
other Vista Home premium machines and can add files and view files, delete
files etc from this directory. I forgot to mention I have network sharing
enabled and password protected sharing disabled.

Now what I have done before (and cannot remember how) and would like to do
now is configure my homemedia folder on my server pc as read only access. i.e
I can listen to my music and view my pictures from any other pc on my network
but they cannot be deleted, changed or added to. I don't want passwords!

I did figure this out before then restacked the machine and forgot to look
how I did it, now I cannot remember!

Can anyone help please

Regards,



Paul

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx

Have a read of the above link re Vista File and Printer Sharing.

Permissions/Share info is there as well.

If using Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro I.S., make sure file and printer
sharing is enabled in THEIR firewall.

1st thing to do is make sure that the Workgroup Name of ALL the computers is
the SAME.

In Vista Network and Sharing:

Network Discovery: ON (So it can see the other computers)

Network set to Private (Public is for hotspots, airports, etc)

File Sharing: ON

Public Folder Sharing: ON (Vista’s Public Folder is the same as XP’s Shared
Docs)

Password Protected: OFF (unless you want to set up identical usernames and
passwords on ALL computers in your Network).

--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Paul W" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a vista home premium machine on my network that I use as a server. I
> have all my music and pictures etc on the D:\ driver in a folder structure
> D:\homemedia\
>
> I have setup a share on this folder I can see it on my network from all my
> other Vista Home premium machines and can add files and view files, delete
> files etc from this directory. I forgot to mention I have network sharing
> enabled and password protected sharing disabled.
>
> Now what I have done before (and cannot remember how) and would like to do
> now is configure my homemedia folder on my server pc as read only access. i.e
> I can listen to my music and view my pictures from any other pc on my network
> but they cannot be deleted, changed or added to. I don't want passwords!
>
> I did figure this out before then restacked the machine and forgot to look
> how I did it, now I cannot remember!
>
> Can anyone help please
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul