First of all, conventional wisdom holds
that you should only share folders you want made public,
and keep everything else unshared. Second, Windows may
already be sharing your entire drive without your knowledge,
and it??™s in your best interest to stop it. See ???Turn Off
Administrative Shares,??? later in this chapter, for details.
But wait! You??™re not done yet. Click the Permissions button to open the Permissions
window shown in Figure 8-17. Here, notice that the Everyone
group (which is indeed everyone) has Read access, yet nobody has Change
or Full Control access. This is probably not what you want.
So, highlight the Everyone entry in the Group or user names box and click
Remove. Then, click Add, type your own username in the Enter the object
names to select box, and click OK.
Figure 8-16. Use the Advanced Sharing window to safely share your folders and allow
other users to modify the files therein (at your discretion)
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Next, highlight the name you just added in the Group or user names box,
and below, click the checkbox in the Allow column for each right you??™d like
to grant. If you want a remote user to be able to read, write, and delete files
in the folder, click the Allow checkbox next to Full Control.
Now, this means that anyone who tries to access your shared folder will
need both your username and your password. If you don??™t want to share this
information with anyone else on your network, you??™ll need to make another
user account on your PC.
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