<p>The leaving your wireless network open question reminded me of this.</p>

<p>I typically share the root drive on my machines across my network, and tie login authorization to the machines NT ID, so there is at least some form of protection.</p>

<p>My question, how easy is it to gain access to these drives for ill good? Is the authorization enough, or should I lock things down more?</p>

[{'answer_id': 32997, 'author': 'Frank Krueger', 'author_id': 338, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/338', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I can't answer the main question, but do keep in mind that Windows, by default, is always sharing the roots of your drives. Try:</p>\n\n<pre><code>\\\\yourmachine\\c$\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>(And then try not to freak out.)</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 33020, 'author': 'Joel Coehoorn', 'author_id': 3043, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3043', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>If this is a home network with no wifi or secured wifi, it's probably not an issue.  Your isp will almost certainly prevent anyone from trying anything via the larger web.</p>\n\n<p>If you have open wifi, then there's a little more cause for concern.  If it's properly secured so that some authentication is required, you're probably okay.  I mean, a determined hacker could probably break in, but you're not likely to find a determined hacker in wi-fi range.  But the risk (if small) is there.  You will want to make sure the administrative shares (the \\\\yourmachine\\c$ or \\\\yourmachine\\admin$ mentioned earlier) are disabled if you have open wifi.  No sense making it too easy.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 71762, 'author': 'Tubs', 'author_id': 11924, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11924', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Windows generally protects shares via two methods - permissions on the share itself, and then NTFS file permissions.  Good practice would be to have the share permissions as "Authenticated User" and remove the "Everyone" group.</p>\n\n<p>Personally I would make sure that usernames and passwords match up on each computer, and control permissions like that, rather than using computer name.</p>\n'}]
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