Hi All
I'm not experienced in networking and even some common principles are bury to me so I could use some help . I have two PCs networked diractly by LAN card to LAN card connection with a crossover UTP cable (the simplest thing ). My "primary" PC is connected to the internet through another LAN card. All the local hard drives of the primary PC are shared so I can access them through the "secondary" PC.
And now the problem: The system maintenance utility which I use recently shows me that all my hard drives have unlimited access rights and anybody can access them by simply typing C$, D$ etc ...
The utility suggests that I should remove the "Everyone" group from the users who can access the shared objects. But "Everyone" is the only group there is...
So I removed it and set my user instead, but after I failed to access the shared HDs through the secondary PC I've realized that I gave rights only to the local user of my primary PC !!! The sharing is completely pointless that way. The locations I can choose are limited to the users of the local (primary) PC, I can't choose the remote (secondary) PC user to have the rigts?!
So the situation now is: the HDs will be shared to either Everyone or No One!!! - Neihter of those suits me!
Please tell me what to do?
And BTW what's the risk? Isn't the firewall supposed to stop any outside access attempts?
Thanks in advance!
I'm not experienced in networking and even some common principles are bury to me so I could use some help . I have two PCs networked diractly by LAN card to LAN card connection with a crossover UTP cable (the simplest thing ). My "primary" PC is connected to the internet through another LAN card. All the local hard drives of the primary PC are shared so I can access them through the "secondary" PC.
And now the problem: The system maintenance utility which I use recently shows me that all my hard drives have unlimited access rights and anybody can access them by simply typing C$, D$ etc ...
The utility suggests that I should remove the "Everyone" group from the users who can access the shared objects. But "Everyone" is the only group there is...
So I removed it and set my user instead, but after I failed to access the shared HDs through the secondary PC I've realized that I gave rights only to the local user of my primary PC !!! The sharing is completely pointless that way. The locations I can choose are limited to the users of the local (primary) PC, I can't choose the remote (secondary) PC user to have the rigts?!
So the situation now is: the HDs will be shared to either Everyone or No One!!! - Neihter of those suits me!
Please tell me what to do?
And BTW what's the risk? Isn't the firewall supposed to stop any outside access attempts?
Thanks in advance!