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Safety when sharing drives permanently ?!

Hello,

I was told by a friend that if I share my drives in my local peer to peer network in win2k, without password the drives wil be wide open on the internet to people that have nothing better to do than get on other peoples drives.
Is this true and if yes is:
1. Zonealarm enough to prevent accesses from outside
2. what sharing profile must i use to only make my PC by my laptop with a specified IP adress ?

Thanks for all comments in advance !

Peter

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peter_b

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thanks, could you precise how to do these modifications in win2k ?
Is Zonealarm enough as a firewall ?

Housenet

-Zone alarm will do it if you block ports 135-139 from any unknown IP addresses. Addresses not in your LAN subnet.

peter_b

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ehh how ?

Housenet

-The internet zone settings on Low allow access to file & print from the internet (dont want that)... Medium settings do block netbios & so do high.
-Read this info.
http://www.zonelabs.com/services/support_onlineprivacy.htm#4onlineprivacy
http://www.zonealarm.com/services/support_network.htm#1network
http://www.zonelabs.com/services/support_general_faq.htm#14general

peter_b

ASKER

ok last thing: how do i simply set up a password for the shared drives ? The all users guest etc are confusing to me.

d_pinger

i think you can resolve it by using on your LAN a "private ip" such as 192.168.0.X,,you cannot access such Ips from the Internet..and a firewall wont be needed..not even passwords..just make an account for every person who needs to use the resources you are sharing..
hope it helps.

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