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Home network initial security settings
Just installed Win8. We share the connection in a shared house via a
router. I can see my roomates network folder. My question is that can they get access to any of my folders? What are the initial settings for home network folders? Can they get access for example to the "public" folder i have there? Am not really familiar with networking.... I have not changed any of the initial setting after installed Win8. |
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Home network initial security settings
JiiPee wrote:
Just installed Win8. We share the connection in a shared house via a router. I can see my roomates network folder. My question is that can they get access to any of my folders? What are the initial settings for home network folders? Can they get access for example to the "public" folder i have there? Am not really familiar with networking.... I have not changed any of the initial setting after installed Win8. Um, as your first step, if you're on an "unsecured" network, wouldn't you use the "non-home" item of the initial network setup ? If you want to segregate your room mate, while sitting on the same router, then "use the Starbucks setting" :-) The newer Windows offer options like this. http://pictures.skrinsot.com/windows...eenshot-16.jpg A "networks in public places" implies an untrusted environment. The Wifi at such a place, gives you a connection to the Internet. But you don't want any snooping going on, so "don't turn on sharing" is intended to prevent that snooping. So what you wanted, is to tick the "No" box, the bottom one. If you use the control panel for this stuff, it has more settings and a finer granularity. I don't know if you can go backwards and do that initial step over again or not. All I can tell you, is I have a habit of rushing through that step a little too fast, and selecting the wrong one (in Windows 7, it's a dialog with three choices or so). Paul |
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