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man, i was hoping to avoid doing that, but i guess if there's no alternative...
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man, i was hoping to avoid doing that, but i guess if there's no alternative...

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I would like to share a folder on my windows xp computer to only a few members of my network without having to create user accounts for each person on my computer...is there any way to prompt for a password upon accessing the shared folder? &nbsp;Or is there any other soution to this problem?<br />
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Thank you.
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I would like to share a folder on my windows xp computer to only a few members of my network without having to create user accounts for each person on my computer...is there any way to prompt for a password upon accessing the shared folder?  Or is there any other soution to this problem?

Thank you.

Windows XP Share-Level Access?

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