Is MS stupid, or what?
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elfsApparently, the HOME version of XP has no security options with respect to file sharing. When you nominate a directory for sharing, it has NO security on it whatsoever-- no restrictions by password, or subnetwork, or remote host identity, or anything. If you share, you share with the whole world.
To get the kind of security people had on Win98, where you could password protect it or isolate it to users in a subnet, you have to buy the Professional edition.
Yech. More reason to stick with Linux.
To get the kind of security people had on Win98, where you could password protect it or isolate it to users in a subnet, you have to buy the Professional edition.
Yech. More reason to stick with Linux.
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Date: 2003-02-06 04:31 pm (UTC)Differentiated, per-user network security settings is one of the specific differences listed between XP Home and XP Pro.
Individually password protected shares (share level security) no longer exists in either XP Home or XP Pro.
(so you can't actually get Win98 style security even if you do upgrade)
Incidentally, this all applies only if you use the standard UI. XP Home's networking restrctions (can not join domain, simple sharing mode only) can be easily changed with a couple of registry settings (Microsoft even exposed most of them in the PowerTools package)
-- Wendor
registry settings
Date: 2003-11-18 08:56 pm (UTC)Is Microsoft Stupid?
Date: 2003-02-09 09:00 pm (UTC)So I use a mac. :)
-Jim