Filesharing in Windows XP

[radx 0]

When i used Windows 2000, people who connected to my computer over the network (both lan and internet) needed be authenticated to even just view my shared folders under \\computername\ But now when i've got windows XP it seems this has gone to be a past of history. Anyone on the internet who just enters my \\ip-address\ gets a list of what's shared. I dont really fancy this behaviour. Though. they will need a password to open the shares i still would prefer to not even let them see a list of shared folders.

 

How do you turn it back on? I've already un-checked the "Use simple file sharing" feature under folder options.

 

 

Cheers!

[Jerry Atrik 0]

u can uninstall filesharing under network connections

[Xiven 0]

Disabling the guest account should prevent them from even listing your shares.

[Immortal 0]

Or disable file and printer sharing.....

[Vermyn 0]

I'm assuming you have only one network card in this computer. Disabling file and printer sharing will lock everyone out of your network (your LAN users and the internet users). This is, however, recommended security practice.

 

What REALLY needs to happen though is you need to get off the external IPs. Is this a work LAN? Do all computers in this work LAN have external IP addresses? If so, that's pretty terrifying and they should fire your IT guy pretty quick.

 

--Alexander

[adamvjackson 0]

Fire Me???!?!??!

 

 

 

Glad it's not really me...

[Vermyn 0]

In my opinion, those paper MCSE's that are sitting around putting all Windows machines on external IP addresses and doing nothing to protect them from the outside are really a waste of IT salaries. With the proliferation of LAN routers for under $99 USD and the like, there's really no excuse. I wish I could count how many networks I've seen with this kind of setup.

[adamvjackson 0]

You know, I agree totally with you. What's really got me up in arms is a former coworker who lied about having an MCSE, had NO technicial/troubleshooting ability, and got hired to replace ME at a higher salary. But that was my former job, I've got a much better job now... I guess things just have a way of working out sometimes.

[radx 0]

 

*bows*

 

I'm very greatful for all the replies! I disabled the guest account and it works flawlessly! Thanks for the help! Funny i didn't think of this myself though

 

Weird things is though starting to happen to my Windows XP here. My always-been-faithful 3com nic is starting to not work sometimes.. and winxp tries to install a driver for it and it says it cant find a suitable driver and when i try to use a fresh one from 3com it says it doesn't match the hardware. And then when i try to uninstall / scan for hardware changes for a few times it works. But when XP init the nic again it says it has problems starting the device but does not specify futher.. umm well now i moved the nic to another pci slot and it works great for (now). But now it's called "Local Area Connection 2". It was like this in good ol' w2k also but you could just go into the control panel and remove the old ghost nic in the remove hardware. Though in XP it seems to have been removed. Unless you guys knows how to work the magic?

[adamvjackson 0]

Slightly unrelated, but maybe there's a firmware update for your nic? For example, there was a run of Netgear FA311's that had the FA312 firmware, and the drivers wouldn't install, unless you 'forced' them in. Netgear released an updated firmware.... So perhaps 3com has some firmware updates?