Laptop usd at home and at work

I have a laptop (Win XP Home) on an home network, and I also use it at work
on a small office network (5 PC's). I want to be able to share My Documents
with the home network (for Back Up purposes) but NOT with the office network
(- I have a separate folder for this). Is there way of doing this (in Win XP
Home) without having to change the share status everytime I change networks?
Thanks for taking time to think about this.

clueless wrote:
I have a laptop (Win XP Home) on an home network, and I also use it
at work on a small office network (5 PC's). I want to be able to
share My Documents with the home network (for Back Up purposes) but
NOT with the office network (- I have a separate folder for this).
Is there way of doing this (in Win XP Home) without having to change
the share status everytime I change networks? Thanks for taking time
to think about this.

Use NTFS permissions to control access to the data. You don't need to worry
about someone "seeing" a share - you just need to make sure they can't
access it. Also note that you can hide shares by naming them share$ (dollar
sign makes it hidden from browsing).

Windows XP Home does not support NTFS permission only PRO.

--
William



"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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clueless wrote:
I have a laptop (Win XP Home) on an home network, and I also use it
at work on a small office network (5 PC's). I want to be able to
share My Documents with the home network (for Back Up purposes) but
NOT with the office network (- I have a separate folder for this).
Is there way of doing this (in Win XP Home) without having to change
the share status everytime I change networks? Thanks for taking time
to think about this.

Use NTFS permissions to control access to the data. You don't need to
worry
about someone "seeing" a share - you just need to make sure they can't
access it. Also note that you can hide shares by naming them share$
(dollar
sign makes it hidden from browsing).

WTC wrote:

Windows XP Home does not support NTFS permission only PRO.

I'm sorry, but that isn't true. Home Edition can be installed with the
NTFS file system, not only FAT32, and most often is. XP Home does not
have the Group Policy Editor to create the fine-grained permissions one
can in Pro. Perhaps that's what you meant?

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"

Yes it was what I meant, sorry about the confusion.

--
William


"Malke" wrote in message
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WTC wrote:

Windows XP Home does not support NTFS permission only PRO.

I'm sorry, but that isn't true. Home Edition can be installed with the
NTFS file system, not only FAT32, and most often is. XP Home does not
have the Group Policy Editor to create the fine-grained permissions one
can in Pro. Perhaps that's what you meant?

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"