Setting Windows Vista Sharing Permissions on Shared Folders

To share a folder with advanced permissions. You use these permissions to determine who has access to the folder, and what those users can do with the folder. You can also use advanced permissions for all security groups rather than individual users. For example, if you apply permissions to the Administrators group these permissions automatically apply to every member of this group.

Before you proceed, make sure you have a user account created for each person who will access the share. Follow these steps to share a folder with advanced permissions:

1. Select Start, and then click your username to access your user profile folder.

2. Click on the folder you want to share. If you want to share a subfolder or file, instead open its folder and then click the folder or file.

3. Click the Share button in the task pane. Windows Vista displays the object's Properties sheet Sharing selected tab.

4. Click Advanced Sharing. User Account Control dialog box appears.

5. Enter your UAC credentials to continue. Advanced Sharing dialog box appears.

6. Assets Part of this folder checkbox.

7. By default Vista folder name as the share name. If you prefer to use a different name, edit Share Name text box.

8. A small network, it is unlikely that you'll have to limit the number of users that can access this resource, you are probably safe to leave limit the number of simultaneous users that the spin box value on the 10th

9. Click Permissions to display the Permissions for Share dialog where Share is the share name you specified in step 7

10. Select the everyone group in the Group or user names list and then click Remove.