I have several external hard drives attached to my PC running Windows 7 Home Premium. Every online directions for sharing these drives say I have to set Permissions to Everyone. I don't want that. I do not want my kids to have access to everything my wife does.
Under Advanced Permissions, I tried in earnest to find my wife's user ID and could not. The only IDs or names available are local to my machine only. I can share to "Everyone" but as I stated, I do not want that.
I want to share certain folders with my children.
Please assist or point me to the right instructions to do this.
I want to point out, I could do this in XP Pro without issues and it was fairly straight forward. Why did they insist on complicating Windows 7? And no I do not want to get Windows 8 or 10. I like 7 because it has all the drivers for this older laptop. I have a new tablet/pc with Windows 10. Ultimately I would like to access these files, photos, videos, etc. from any outside PC (username and password protected) and from my phone as well.
Thank you.
Under Advanced Permissions, I tried in earnest to find my wife's user ID and could not. The only IDs or names available are local to my machine only. I can share to "Everyone" but as I stated, I do not want that.
I want to share certain folders with my children.
Please assist or point me to the right instructions to do this.
I want to point out, I could do this in XP Pro without issues and it was fairly straight forward. Why did they insist on complicating Windows 7? And no I do not want to get Windows 8 or 10. I like 7 because it has all the drivers for this older laptop. I have a new tablet/pc with Windows 10. Ultimately I would like to access these files, photos, videos, etc. from any outside PC (username and password protected) and from my phone as well.
Thank you.
My Computer
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- HP
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
- CPU
- AMD Phenom(tm) II N870 Triple-Core Processor, 2300 Mhz
- Memory
- 6GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Internal
- Hard Drives
- 500 GB, (2) 2 TB Externals, (1) 1 TB External, (1) 5 TB External
- Antivirus
- Microsoft Security Essentials
- Browser
- all of them
