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Posted: **Sat May 07, 2005 2:40 pm**

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?

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2005 3:23 pm**

Guess it's more secure this way.

Edited By TheCatt on 1115493840

Posted: **Sat May 07, 2005 3:42 pm**

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)

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2005 6:00 pm**

You could restrict access to your access point to only the MAC addresses you have.

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2005 6:05 pm**

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.

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