File shaing

The guy you would like too share the file with must have
an account on your local machine. Windows maps users from
other machines to local users on the machine where you
have the resource you want to share. The user id:s must
be the same on both machines.

Regards
Ulf
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>Sorry for the 10 billionth post about xp file sharing
but i'm stuck.
>
>I'm trying to share a file with permissions to just 1
person on our
>home lan (4 of us all runnin xp pro)
>
>I go to set the permissions and remove the everyone bit
and click add,
>
>I then try and enter his computer name etc and it wont
have it, I then
>try and click on the from locations box and only my pc
is there. I
>basically cant seem to direct windows file permissions
to a user on
>the network, but i can to my pc, a user on it or
everyone.
>
>Network was installed via the wizard, can see all
computers in
>workgroup so everythin seems to be ok and workin.
>
>Arrgh, windows 98 was so easy!
>
>Any help would be much appreciated, thanks, Jon
>.
>

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Thanks so much for ure help!