Pass-Protect a Network Workgroup?

on our campus we can make workgroups and then share files. some of them i have noticed are password protected. i made one with some friends, but i couldn't figure out how to pass-protect them.

help?

the workgroups are password-protected, or the files?

the workgroup was pass-protected. it prompted for a username/pass when i tried to open it.

in that case, the workgroup itself is probably not password protected...but rather, it is 'private' and only allows connections by selected users/computers.
Because you are trying to access a protected resource from an a computer or user account that is not a member of the workgroup, you're given the opportunity to authenticate as a user with access rights.

ok. well is there another way to keep people not in our workgroup from viewing/copying our files?

thanks for the help/info sparsley. :)

go to the sharing permissions of your workgroups folders

nothing really there about password protection.... :ermm:

add only users you want to be allowed into your workgroup as members with full access(allowed to read and write to your folders) and block everyone else off