Enable file sharing

[Andy Cooper]

With a fresh install of windows xp, simple file sharing is enabled by
default. To enable file sharing a user must right click on a folder
and select sharing and security. The following screen is displayed:
http://www.lust4sun.com/xp/1.jpg

Clicking on the "If you understand the scurity risks..." link brings
up the next window:
http://www.lust4sun.com/xp/2.jpg

My question is, what happens when you select the "Just enable file
sharing" button and click ok? What is the change in XP, a service, a
registry switch, or something else?

What if simple file sharing is turned off before this option is
checked, and you share a file?

Andy Cooper

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

In article >,
(Andy Cooper) wrote:
>With a fresh install of windows xp, simple file sharing is enabled by
>default. To enable file sharing a user must right click on a folder
>and select sharing and security. The following screen is displayed:
>http://www.lust4sun.com/xp/1.jpg
>
>Clicking on the "If you understand the scurity risks..." link brings
>up the next window:
>http://www.lust4sun.com/xp/2.jpg
>
>My question is, what happens when you select the "Just enable file
>sharing" button and click ok? What is the change in XP, a service, a
>registry switch, or something else?
>
>What if simple file sharing is turned off before this option is
>checked, and you share a file?
>
>Andy Cooper


XP wants you to run the Network Setup Wizard so that it can determine
whether to automatically enable the Internet Connection Firewall. It
enables the firewall if you have a direct connection to the Internet:
dial-up, cable/DSL modem connected to a network card or USB port. It
doesn't enable the firewall if you have an indirect connection:
through an ICS host or broadband router (which it calls a "residential
gateway").

The behavior is the same regardless of the simple file sharing
setting.

Thanks for posting links to the pictures instead of attaching them to
your message!
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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