[ale] Firewalling question

[Wandered Inn]

"Patrick W. Jones" wrote:
> 
> I understand it to be that you only see the machines on YOUR
> leg of the cable.  It is as secure as the people on the cable.  If Joe
> Schmo sets up a shared directory on his Windows machine, then
> you will be able to see it and get to it.  If he shares his CD-Rom
> then you could get to his CD-ROM, and so on and so forth, just the
> same as if you were all on the same ethernet connection.  The
> Network Neighborhood junk is part of Windows NetBIOS (I think)
> and there really isn't anyway to get your machine to not show up -
> as far as I know.

Sure there is, you don't turn on print or file sharing in Windows or
Samba.

Under Samba, you can restrict access to your machine even further, I
don't know about Windows.

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