Secure Networking with Windows

Hey guys. I'm thinking about setting up a fileserver here in my lab and am looking for a little bit of help. Unfortunately, I've got a whole boatload of different computers using different installations of Windows (probably 2k through 7) and I'm looking for a way to securely allow a drive on one of those PCs to be a network drive accessible to only specific other users.

I'd rather not go the FTP route since I want this to be something people in the group access regularly. It would host backups of experimental data as well as be a central place for everyone to share papers they've read.

Any advice on a route to take or basic walkthroughs somewhere on the web?

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It will likely be a Win7 computer, as it's currently running our license server for ProEngineer or some program similar to that.

How secure is the simple file sharing stuff? I'd like to be able to limit access to people within a certain IP range or some other method similar to that such that you need your computer to be granted access in order to get into the files.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Shade, how would you set up users and such for remote computers? This is a PC that's just going to be running in the back of someone's office, so people won't actually be logging on/off of it.

Also, I remember in the past there being issues with setting up computers to be on the same Workgroup and all that jazz. Do I still need to set everyone to be on the same one of those?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Thanks shade, I'll give it a shot.

Also, that tip about making your Windows Profile and User name the same just fixed the issue I had been having with connecting to my university's network space!

How ya doing, buddy?