Sharing of C:

[Guest]

Hello

I am a beginner. I would like to ask whether the default setting of drive C or D under XP is accessible by everyone including network peer. Is it a security concern

I have heard that you can txt. file and put it under "Startup", then it would be disable
The content lik
net share c$ /delet
I have tried but I did not know whether it works. Please advise.
If I really did not want my personal data at C: being exposed and I just want to share E:, how can I limit the access from the peer. Does firewall really work?
I have installed one but I always find supicious programs being installed on C

Thank you for your hel

Dennis

 

[Guest]

Dennis

Starting with the Microsoft Resource Kit for Windows 2000 a utility was created to "disable" the administrative shares on a workstation system. A far better way of protecting those drives is to enable the ICF (Internet Connection Firewall) built into Windows XP. This will disable all traffic to port 135 effectively disabling the ability to connect to any drive shares. This is escpecially useful in an enterprise environment where any drive shares are on a separete server. If you still need to access network shares on your computer a better solution is to allow systems in through an IPSec policy to filter out all Internet traffic but allow just the systems that need access to the computer being used

-David L. Bor
(Bork Technical Services)

 

[Traps]

It will only be accessible to all if you share it out and
give everyone permisions, I don't reccomend you do
this...create a network share instead.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
Hello.

I am a beginner. I would like to ask whether the

default setting of drive C or D under XP is accessible by
everyone including network peer. Is it a security
concern?

I have heard that you can txt. file and put it

under "Startup", then it would be disable.

The content like
net share c$ /delete
I have tried but I did not know whether it works. Please advise.
If I really did not want my personal data at C: being

exposed and I just want to share E:, how can I limit the
access from the peer. Does firewall really work?

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

The default (aka administrative) shares may only be accessed by someone
able to provide the username and password of an admin account on the
sharing machine. These can be shut off with a registry settings, but if
they
are anything of a security risk it is only because there is an admin account
that is no longer within your control, in which case you have other
problems.

Roger

Hello.

I am a beginner. I would like to ask whether the default setting of drive

C or D under XP is accessible by everyone including network peer. Is it a
security concern?

I have heard that you can txt. file and put it under "Startup", then it would be disable.
The content like
net share c$ /delete
I have tried but I did not know whether it works. Please advise.
If I really did not want my personal data at C: being exposed and I just

want to share E:, how can I limit the access from the peer. Does firewall
really work?