I have WinXP Pro in 3 PCs connected as a workgroup. File system is NTFS.
Please help me or tell me where to get info on how to set access restrictions in main PC so that the other PCs can only access password-protected shared folders in main PC.
The info I got from from Help and ...

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John

I'm fairly lost when it comes to Windows, so please bear
with me if this is a completely moronic question ;-)
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