Re: File and Print Sharing benefits?

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Hi,

I don't agree with the others. It's been awhile since I setup networks, but
I see no reason why you want to share anything on client computers. File and
Printer Sharing could be a security problem allowing others to remotely
access resources, especially if you are connected to the Internet.

If you disable File and Printer sharing I believe WINS won't work, but that
is not needed these days. The computers can still be remotely accessed and
administered with WMI.

The only time I have enabled File and Printer sharing on clients is when I
have a specific resource on the computer that needs to be shared, like an
SQL Server database, or a shared folder.

Am I off-base here?

--
Richard
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net

"Spur" <Spur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You might want to turn it on. consider remote administration. You will not
be
able to map to your admin shares with out it on XP.

"Massimo" wrote:

"Hiro" <Hiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
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we gain any benefit from turning on File and Print Sharing?

That should be on by default on all NT-derived systems; I find quite
strange
that's disabled on your machines.

Are there any AD features we will lose by disabling this feature?

File and Print Sharing is not related to AD; it just allows a computer
to...
well... share files and printers :-)


Massimo




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