How to share folders to certain pc's?

saitrix · 14 Jan 2013 at 18:24

Hi,

I have a home network with 4 pc's on (2 of which are mine). All of them run windows 7 or 8. I am wanting to share some folders on PC1 only to PC2, so PC3 & PC4 cannot see or access it. How do I do this?

The PC I want to share the folders of is Windows 8.

BigBoy · 14 Jan 2013 at 18:42

Set the share and turn on password protected sharing. On both pc's setup user accounts that match so pc1 has accounts names "me" and "notme" and pc2 has the same users. Job done!

paradigm · 14 Jan 2013 at 20:06

Or set up static IP's (or reservations on the DHCP table of your router), and block (or allow) access using Windows Firewall.

BigBoy · 14 Jan 2013 at 21:02

paradigm said:
Or set up static IP's (or reservations on the DHCP table of your router), and block (or allow) access using Windows Firewall.

complete overkill!

paradigm · 14 Jan 2013 at 22:30

BigBoy said:
complete overkill!

Overkill? Setting a single static IP and allowing only that IP to have access?

Seems a better solution to me than having matching credentials everywhere.

BigBoy · 14 Jan 2013 at 22:39

user credentials for a home network behind a NAT router far easier than setting static IP's and faffing with rules!

paradigm · 14 Jan 2013 at 22:42

Faffing? It's click click click, much like setting up usernames.

saitrix · 15 Jan 2013 at 07:10

Thanks for the help, didn't occur to me to use Paradigm's method. In the end I did it another method. If you link your account on PC1 and PC2 to your Microsoft live account you can then just share a folder to just usernames connected to that account. Works like a charm and I didn't need to add any usernames etc.