Shared drives and access restrictions.

Hi, everyone.
I have set the hard drives in two of my computers as shared drives so that I can access their contents from a few different computers in my small network. I usually access these files with a MacBook Pro connected wirelessly through an airport extreme base.
How can I assign restrictions to this access so that others don't have access to the drives' contents ? Is it possible to restrict access to certain computer names and/or IP addresses ? What is the best way to handle this ?
Thanks in advance for your answers.

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