Re: Pro's and Con's of File Sharing

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:25:43 -0400

Norman Rosenthal wrote:
> Can someone help me out as I have to do a report on whether or not we
> should enable or disable File and Print Sharing on our network and
> what the Pro's and Cons are or maybe a website or article.
>
>
>
> I think a few are
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> Remote Management of PC trhough Computer Manager
> Being able to push our AntiVirus SAV Corporate Edition to remote
> machiene using the Admin$ Share.
> Being able to access the PC's file system
>
> I will secure the PC and use nothing other then the defulat shares

If you've protected your network at the perimeter with a good firewall, and
kept all computers patched, and not granted users local admin rights, I'd
leave it enabled. Up to you. But I wouldn't think any corporate antivirus
product would require access to the local admin share in order to push out
updates.... ?