Limitation on a home network

Hello, We have 3 computers on a home network. Lets call them A, B and C
A has all the data
B will be accessing all folders in A through network (read and write)
C will be read-only accessing certain folders on A thorugh network.
How can I set that up?
Answer #1
Which OS is each of em running?
In B,All folders = Entire hard drive?,And just to verify,Computer C would
have nothing shared but will be able to access (in read-only mode) to only certain folders on A,Correct?
Is there a specific purpose behind all of this?
Answer #2
A and C are running XP, B is running Mac OS X
B will access all harddrives in A
No, C will not only access certain folders in A but also will have some folders shared. But I did not feel the need to say because I can already do that in simple file sharing. (by left clicking and selecting sharing)
Spesific purpose is that my sister will only have access to movies in my server, but will not see my porn collection.
Why only read-only? Because that she will not accidently mess stuff up..
Answer #3
Do this on both A & C
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Goto control panel,Switch it to classic view and open up Network Connections,On the left click on Set up a home or small office network and just follow the wizard,Don’t change anything except the workgroup name (which has to be the same on both)
and if you get a window saying that there are disconnected network adapters,Just tick the ignore box and carry on,A restart might
be required at the end,After that,Goto control panel>>folder options>>view and uncheck use simple file sharing
If there’s any 3rd party firewall installed,You’ll need to adjust it accordingly,If windows firewall is used,It’d be automatically
adjusted by the wizard.
On A only
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First I’d like to point out that by default,The C partition has an administrative share which cannot be disabled,Means it
can be accessed over the network but only by inputting the Administrator account login data (and just to clarify,In XP,Administrator
is an account by itself and separate from the regular one),Also,It’s permissions cannot be manually set,So it’s not ideal
for your intended usage,If you wanna fully share other partitions that’s fine,But as far as the C one goes,You’d be best sharing
only selected folders,In the Sharing tab (on the properties of each shared folder/partition) click on permissions,Select
Everyone and set it to deny on all counts (this disables free access),Then click on add and add>>locations
and pick the username of computer C,Then just set it only to read (Again,This should be done on each folder/drive you share,Buy the 2nd step only on those you want computer C to have access to)
B
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Change the workgroup name as explained here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1165.html
This has to be the same one set on A & C of course.
You’ll need to add it to the permissions of each share on A so it’d allow full access to it. As far as the rest goes (connecting to the share),See this guide:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1568
You could create shortcuts for each share to make it easier.
Answer #4
Thanks man. I’ll try these tonight.