sharing question

[Jeff]

I own a Nexus 7 android tablet and a Windows 7 PC. Using a file manager
on the android device I can access my Windows 7 laptop on my home wlan
and move files over the wlan. For this purpose I created a special
folder called "share" for those transfers.

But I notice that when I connect to the Windows 7 PC, the android device
gives me access to the share folder on the Windows 7 BUT, it also gives
me access to the "Users" folders. That sounds dangerous. Is there
something I can do on the pc to make the users folder inaccessible?

Thank you.

Jeff

 

[Ed Cryer]

I own a Nexus 7 android tablet and a Windows 7 PC. Using a file manager
on the android device I can access my Windows 7 laptop on my home wlan
and move files over the wlan. For this purpose I created a special
folder called "share" for those transfers.

But I notice that when I connect to the Windows 7 PC, the android device
gives me access to the share folder on the Windows 7 BUT, it also gives
me access to the "Users" folders. That sounds dangerous. Is there
something I can do on the pc to make the users folder inaccessible?

Thank you.

Jeff

You set sharing permissions in Win7 for whatever you want to be
shareable across your network. I'm not sure how the Nexus 7 OS works,
but the fact that it has access to your Win7 user folder seems to
indicate that you have to reset the Win7 settings.

You set file and folder permissions in Properties/ sharing. It is
possible to set a whole drive as shareable with Advanced Sharing. If
that's set change it.

Check the user folder sharing setting. If it's set then that is why
Nexus can get in. If it's unset then there's some deeper problem to look
into.

Ed

 

[Jeff]

You set sharing permissions in Win7 for whatever you want to be
shareable across your network. I'm not sure how the Nexus 7 OS works,
but the fact that it has access to your Win7 user folder seems to
indicate that you have to reset the Win7 settings.

You set file and folder permissions in Properties/ sharing. It is
possible to set a whole drive as shareable with Advanced Sharing. If
that's set change it.

Check the user folder sharing setting. If it's set then that is why
Nexus can get in. If it's unset then there's some deeper problem to look
into.

Ed

Thank you.

I went to the c:\users folder and found that it was shared under
"advanced sharing". Don't remember doing that but anyway I unselected
advanced sharing. Hope that doe not break something else.

The rest of the C: partition is not shared.

Is there a command I can use to see what, if anything else, is
inadvertently shared on this PC?

Thanks again.

 

[Ed Cryer]

Thank you.

I went to the c:\users folder and found that it was shared under
"advanced sharing". Don't remember doing that but anyway I unselected
advanced sharing. Hope that doe not break something else.

The rest of the C: partition is not shared.

Is there a command I can use to see what, if anything else, is
inadvertently shared on this PC?

Thanks again.

1. View network computers & devices
2. Right click & open; shows all shared folders.

Ed

 

[Jeff]

1. View network computers & devices
2. Right click & open; shows all shared folders.

Ed

Thank you.