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#1 2012-04-17 05:55

pstein
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Registered: 2006-10-11
Posts: 12

Disable folder sharing when in public WLAN

Assume I go to a public Internet cafe or other public site.

Here I can switch to the new (W)LAN settings by using NetSetMan. Fine.

However there is now a security issue: My shared folders are visible to other users in WLAN.

Is there a way to let NetSetMan hide/disable (temporarily) these shared folders resp. their visibility?

This could be achieved by (temporarily) stop the Microsoft client and printer service.

If this is not possible: Could you add this feature in the next release?

Thank you
Peter

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#2 2012-04-17 22:18

NetSetMan Support
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Registered: 2005-08-06
Posts: 1,878

Re: Disable folder sharing when in public WLAN

With Windows Vista and 7 you can control that by setting unknown locations to "Public" while known locations are "Home/Work".

Nevertheless a network sharing feature (that will allow this and more) will come later this year for NetSetMan.

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