Re: File sharing and wireless roaming
From: Gary R. (roberthouse_at_geocities.com)
Date: 10/09/04
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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:19:38 -0700
Thanks for the reply, I'll at least set a password on the shared folders,
and just have the home machines remember them. I don't keep anything
critical in the shared folders anyway. Seems like an ideal way would be a
small utility that you could click to shut file sharing off for mobile use,
and click to turn it back on when you get home, if such a thing is possible.
Gary
"N. Miller" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1bd127d2a8173fe198a49c@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <uNE#MpYrEHA.1160@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>, Gary R. says...
> Make it a need for a password on the home network; then your laptop shares
> will be password protected at the cafe. More layers are better. WEP can be
> cracked in some period of time. If you are encrypting tactical secrets,
> the
> outcome of which will be accomplished within two weeks, WEP is fine.
> Otherwise...
>
>
> I was able to connect to shares on computers exposing them to the
> Internet,
> even when not using the same workgroup name, or being in the same network
> segment. "Workgroup" identities an ad hoc group of computers being used in
> common projects; it was never intended as a security measure. Your best
> security is password protection on the shares.
>
> The Windows Firewall probably will only protect you from people not on
> your
> network segment. You will have established some level of trust for the
> network; that will extend to any computer sharing that network segment.
>
>> There is nothing especially private in either of them at any time, but
>> I'd
>> prefer that someone sitting in the coffee shop can't just click on
>> "network
>> places" and see my workgroup and folders there, or worse, access them. I
>> can set a password for the full sharing of the folders; but regardless of
>> that would like to know if they would be able to see my shared resources,
>> and if so what can be done short of turning sharing off when I travel.
>
> Even password protected shares can be see; I have done it over the
> Internet.
> There is nothing you can do, short of binding shares to some esoteric
> network protocol not normally used by cafe customers.
>
> --
> Norman
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> ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
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