Hello I am trying to set up my home network to share files to any of my computers. I'm running Win7 and I have multiple admin login's for different people on this computer. I have managed to setup my private files to only be seen when I login but I want to be able to access them from any computer in my house and not share them with other people. So I need them to be only visible to me when I login using my user name and password but be invisible to anyone else on the network. I have, as of yet, been unable to accomplish this. I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

So you want them to show up automatically on the computer you login to? This is essentially a workgroup, no centrally managed login informaiton, each computer has unique accounts on it for purpose of authentication. What I would do is SHARE your user directory but remove all permissions except for you on the share. Locally on the computer Windows will prevent anyone but you from accessing the folder, but when you share it out you'll have to make sure that in order for people to not "see" what is in the folder you have to remove EVERYONE from the view of the shared folder and only add your specific logon account as the ability to view and interact with the folder. To do this follow these steps Open an explorer window, and locate the folder you want to share (i.e. your user profile folder or documents folder) Right Click on it and select SHARING tab, and then click on ADVANCED Sharing. Check the box to "SHARE THIS FOLDER" You can leave the name as default, your UNC path to the share will then be \\<computername>\<sharename> where computername is the name of the computer obviously and the sharename would be the name of your profile or documents folder Click on PERMISSIONS at the bottom of that window Click on EVERYONE and click REMOVE Click on ADD and add your user account on that workstation to the list and click the check box for FULL CONTROL Click ok and confirm the rest of the dialog boxes. Go to another computer on the network logon as your specific user, attempt to map a drive to the \\computername\sharename listed in the instruction above using the appropriate credentials from the box where the share is at, and see that you can work with your files Then log off that box as your user, logon as a user that SHOULDN'T have access to those files, and attempt to map a drive using that user's credentials, you should get an error that the share couldn't be found or something like that. Let me know if I'm off base as to what you're asking but I think that should work for you. Also, if another user browsed to the computer where the share is at through the network the would see that the share is created but would not be able to double click on that folder and open it..because the EVERYONE group was removed. If you want to hide the share entirely, in the step above where you created the share, add a $ to it and it will be hidden from this view. You will then have to manually know the share path to be able to map a drive to it vice being able to browse the network resources for it. r/ johnJohn Wildes | Senior Enterprise Architect | United Airlines | Desktop Engineering