password protecting shares in windows 2000 and XP

[shassouneh 0]

Sorry people if this is a repeated post. i already used the search engine and none of the results helped me much.

My question is how do you password-protect shares under windows 2000 AND windows XP? Please include for BOTH windows 2000 and Windows XP.

 

btw, this is NOT the login stuff. I know how to do that. this is SPECIFIC share protection by using a password (e.g password protecting a shared folder)

[DosFreak 2]

Why not use permissions? Deny read permission and they will not be able to open it.

[shassouneh 0]

No, that would be far too much trouble by setting permissions to EVERY SINGLE USER. Also, I need to know how to set password protection for shares anyway...

[kgeissler 0]

Create a group, put all the users in the group. Then assign permissions to the group.

[shassouneh 0]

I don't want to do it through permissions as i explained earlier. I need to lear how to do it through password-protection anyways!