Creating a New Share
Although the easiest way to share a folder is to start from Windows Explorer, you can also create a new share by using the Shared Folders snap-in. The Create Shared Folder Wizard is available in the Shared Folders snap-in only if you are using Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional with Simple File Sharing disabled. To start the wizard, right-click Shares in the console tree and choose New File Share and then follow the prompts to select the folder you want to share and set up basic security options, as shown in Figure 14-9. Unlike the default share permissions applied when you create a share in Windows Explorer (whether Simple File Sharing is enabled or not), the wizard allows you to set different permissions for administrators (members of the Administrators group) and other users (Everyone).


The Create Shared Folder Wizard provides an alternative to sharing a folder from Windows Explorer.
You don't need to open the Shared Folders console to get to the Create Shared Folder Wizard; you can run it by typing shrpubw at a command prompt. Surprisingly, this shortcut works in Windows XP (including Home Edition) when Simple File Sharing is enabled. Unfortunately, using the wizard to create a share with custom permissions is of no use in this configuration because when Simple File Sharing is enabled (as it is all the time in Windows XP Home Edition), all network users are authenticated as Guest. Even if you set up different permissions for different network users, Windows XP ignores these permissions and uses the permissions assigned to the Guest account instead.

Libellés : Creating, New, Share