restricting access in small office network ???

[wolf papa]

I'm planning to network 3 computers (all on Win 98) for use in a small business. One computer will be the main, and will have personnel, payroll and other confidential files, as well as files that all 3 will need access to. The other two will need to have read-only access to some of the files on the main computer, but I don't want them to have access to everything. Is there a way to control which files or programs they can access ?
My first thought was to install a small hard drive for shared files, and giving access to that drive only. I also thought about re-partitioning the drive, and allowing access to only one of the partitions. Is there a better way to do this ? Or is there something in Windows that would allow me to select who can have access to what files ?

 

[fergiboy]

You can choose the folder that you want to share, you don't have to share a whole drive.

 

[wolf papa]

Thank you, glad to know it's something simple

 

[bigshooter]

If you give them read only access, they can still read or run anything that's shared. You may want to upgrade to win2k. It allows you to set permissions on specific folders or files. This way you won't have to put all the files you want them to see in a certain directory, and all the ones you dont in another. You can just say you don't want them to look at specific ones even if they can see all the other ones.