I have a "server", which is Win 7 HP 32 bit. Most of the files on this computerThere are two different accounts on server, one is console, the other is marked as "special" so that it doesn't show on welcome scren.Then I have the main home PC which is Win7 HP 64 bit. This computer is mostly the client.There are 4 different accounts on the client.The "special" account is matched between the computers and it is administrative on both computers (My account, I'm the home tech admin, so to speak).What I want is that only my account has R/W rights on the server shares. The other three accounts on main PC should only have read access.Initially, I didn't have the computers in a homegroup and my special account worked as intended. However, since Win 7 HP doesn't have some easy management tools, I didn't exactly feel like setting up each of the other accounts so that they would have access to the server's data.Instead I just created a homegroup.That works fine, but now all users just logon to the server as Homegroup account. My rights go from R/W to read only because of this.And since windows networking doesn't allow multiple accounts to the same server, I can't log on with my account.So in the end even if Homegroup sharing settings allow me to assign special permissions for my account, I can't make use of those rights because even my account logs on to the server as homegroup account.Is there any solution to this problem except for killing Homegroup and using the old networking ways?Note that I don't have a server with domains available.Thanks,Jure

Hi, You can go to the Security tab of the server shared folders. Remove the "HomeUsers" permission and then manually add the accounts permission. You can assign "Read/Write" permission to the special account and assign "Read" permission to other accounts. Thanks, Novak

So in other words - kill homegroup in favor of classic networking? I can't understand how this would work though since the client computer will still try to log on to the server as homegroup user.Or not?

No, it does not kill HomeGroup. You just remove the "HomeUsers" permission on certain folder or several folders and assign permission to the special account. Regarding other shared folders which you have not modified their permission, music or Libraries, they are still shared via HomeGroup and the feature is still turned on.