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I have a PC at home with a wireless internet connection and the firewall is
usually on permanently, with no exceptions allowed.
I have now linked a second PC to my first PC using cat5 and I want to share
files between these two PC's and I also share the wireless internet
connection.
However, I find that the sharing of files and the sharing of the internet
connection can only be achieved if I set file sharing as an exception in the
firewall settings.
Does this mean someone else could access my shared files through the
wireless internet connection?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Tia
"Mackem" <Mackem@iname.com> wrote in message
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> I have a PC at home with a wireless internet connection and the firewall
is
> usually on permanently, with no exceptions allowed.
> I have now linked a second PC to my first PC using cat5 and I want to
share
> files between these two PC's and I also share the wireless internet
> connection.
> However, I find that the sharing of files and the sharing of the internet
> connection can only be achieved if I set file sharing as an exception in
the
> firewall settings.
> Does this mean someone else could access my shared files through the
> wireless internet connection?
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> Tia
>
>
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