Wireless Home Sharing Question

One Desktop.
One Laptop.
Vista SP2 on both.
Cable connection, Netgear WGR614v4, updated firmware.
PS3
Big Samsung LCD TV.

The goal is to share the video and mp3 contents on the laptop hard drive and watch/listen on the Samsung LCD TV and home stereo or on the desktop.

Right now, I have all the sharing/network discovery turn off on Vista and iTune 9.0.2, but strangely, Vista still shows all my MP3 being shared by me. It's also showing my printers (PDF, XPS) as shared network folders.

How do I turn off the sharing on those two items? And what is the simplest way for the desktop, PS3 to share my contents? Should I put files in public folders and be done with it? Also, while sharing files, will it slow down our wilress internet connection? Does present technology use different channel, network, connection to prevent the slow down?

 

I use NAS for sharing files. This way I do not have file sharing turned on any of my stations.

You should be able to do a rt click and change your sharing credintials.

 

NAS is too much for me. In fact, home sharing is not that important to me, so I don't want to spend extra money just to do it. I just want to know what's the easiest, and resonably secure way in sharing my files to desktop, PS3 and TV? Should I just put the files i want to share to the public folders and let others find and access them?

 

While network discovery is turned off, each individual device/folder has its own sharing settings. If it is turned off in the network and sharing center then nothing to worry about.