Restrict access to shared folders windows 7

Ghost Chili. Supaplex This person is a verified professional. Yes, we don't use any vlans. Replace Attachment. Add link Text to display: Where should this link go? Add Cancel. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Networking. Sign in to vote. Hi, I have 5 computers with Windows 7. What am I missing? Thanks for your help, Andy. Wednesday, December 2, AM. Hi Andy, We cannot use HomeGroup to setup this kind of network sharing folder.

Give them the same password as they are on their own computers. Also you can give a different password but we will need to manually type password when access shared files. As others have said its the Windows desktop OS connection limit. If you reboot the connection counter will be reset, but with that many users you will quickly exceed it again.

Is there a reason why you are not using an actual server OS? When I started out, the limit was 10 sessions to connect to a workstation OS. Now it is 20, and you're feeling the pain of trying to use a workstation OS when a server OS is what is appropriate.

The desktop motherboard and OS design is different than the server motherboard and OS design. The desktop is designed to do the work on the hosts CPU; whereas, the server is designed to move information in and out from the HD in and out the NIC.

Thank you all for the quick response. In this quick guide, let me show how you can change the folder permissions to restrict user access to folders in Windows. First, find the folder you want to restrict and open its Properties from the right-click menu. If you see the user name, skip to Step 4.