Network user shares

[JamesM]

After a bit of help/advice in terms of setting up private folders on a server.

The setup I have is there are three systems, each with a user (some without a password) along with the main server which hosts music, movies, pictures, etc.

Currently everything is public so people can access stuff on the server and that's fine however I want to create three folders (or partitions if that makes things easier) in which each of the three users has their own space for their documents which the other users can't access.

I can setup a homegroup fine and know how to share folders but it's the part where I link the login credentials to the actual user on each of the systems that baffles me. If I do link them to the 3 users on the different do they all have to have passwords on login or can they enter their password when they want to gain access to their folder/partition?

Also by doing the above, does that mean the server will need to have 3 user accounts setup the same as the other systems?

 

[Craigus]

What is the reason for wanting those files to be on the server and not saved locally?

Is it home network or at a business?

 

[Raumarik]

guessing it's home based networking.

Chances are you'll need identical accounts on the server, same username/password for the users on the PCs. That's how it use to work anyway.

Share out a folder and within it make 3 separate folders. All users have access to the share and main folder but inheritance is broken on the 3 subfolders and each user has access to that folder.

I don't use networking at home, only on 2003/2008 domains at work so I'm not entirely sure how versatile homegroups etc are.

 

[JamesM]

Yep it's a home network

I wanted to try and avoid each system having the same user accounts

Will keep searching around but that's for the replies so far