You know, I remember this being very simple prior to XP. Right click ont he drive, sharing, enable sharing, choose a password.
I've spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to pword protect a hard drive... I have a wireless network and don't want to slow it down with the encryption... and I can't figure this shit out. I've gotten to where I can assign different permissions to different classes of users, but goddammit....... I JUST WANT TO PWORD LOCK IT.
Why did Microsoft make this once simple process several orders of magnitude more difficult in WinXP?
Password protecting HD's in XP
Yeah, so secure that I can't figure out how to secure it.
My concern is that lately I've been seeing a lot of unauthorized attempts for wireless DHCP access. I thought I had the IP's restricted, but a few times I saw "request authorized" in the logs. Main issue at this point is that peeps have access to my windows networking workgroup, so I wanted to lock down access to the HD's. But I can't.
So just now, for the first time, I've WEP'd up my wireless system. I had to use a sledge hammer instead of a scalpal. That ought to do it unless someone wants in so bad they are going to crack the 64 bit encryption by brute force. (The reason I never WEP'd before is for speed... which is why I haven't YET gone to 128 or 256 bit, which is available to me)
My concern is that lately I've been seeing a lot of unauthorized attempts for wireless DHCP access. I thought I had the IP's restricted, but a few times I saw "request authorized" in the logs. Main issue at this point is that peeps have access to my windows networking workgroup, so I wanted to lock down access to the HD's. But I can't.
So just now, for the first time, I've WEP'd up my wireless system. I had to use a sledge hammer instead of a scalpal. That ought to do it unless someone wants in so bad they are going to crack the 64 bit encryption by brute force. (The reason I never WEP'd before is for speed... which is why I haven't YET gone to 128 or 256 bit, which is available to me)
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I had a range of 3 IP's allowed, and each one was assigned to one of my 3 machines. But then I was seeing other machines connect... so dunno. Might be a flaw in the router, or something.
Anyway, it's WEP'd up now. Should stop the casual wardriver (or neighbor) from connecting.
Anyway, it's WEP'd up now. Should stop the casual wardriver (or neighbor) from connecting.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."