I have a simple network at home which uses a wireless router as a hub and file/print sharing turned on. It works fine (2 WinXP Home machines)
But, if I take my laptop into the office and connect to the wireless network in there, will everyone be able to access my shared folders? - Or are the shares etc. specific to the workgroup/network/ssid ?
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brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso
Everyone will be able to access your laptop's shared folders... though you could use Windows firewall to block that. Generally I recommend always leaving the wireless connection firewalled and disabling the firewall on the Ethernet connection if you have sufficient reason to do so (like file sharing) but that's not always convenient. Windows is insecure enough without connecting to a foreign wireless network without a firewall. At home you'll at least have WPA or WPA2 encryption enabled (right?).
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And yes, I do have WPA enabled on the home router - I was detecting 2 unsecured networks in my area as it was!
What amazed me was that it wasn't enabled by default. I had to go in and configure it manually. It seems a lot of people don't bother to do this, or aren't aware that they should. -
~ Brett
Wireless network & security
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by jhonan, Sep 28, 2006.