Passwording a shared network drive

[Zoinks]

I just discovered I can mount my home computer's hdd to a network computer at home. My home computer was just connected via T1 and a cisco pix firewall.

How do I prevent mounting without being asked login/password?

 

[ivwshane]

Create a user account on the server with the same username and password on the client machine (assuming you are talking about a home setup with no domain).

 

[Zoinks]

Thats just it - the server has two accounts both are password protected. But I was able to mount the network drive without asking for a password.

 

[rasczak]

unless the user trying to map the network drive has account credentials on the home machine they will not be able to map to it.

if you want the other user who has an account and is password protected to not be able to access the shared drive, then you need to take away share/security permissions on the drive for that user.

i.e shared drive > rt click > properties > security > remove the other users name and also remove the everyone account as well.

do the same thing for sharing.

 

[ivwshane]

Originally posted by: Zoinks
Thats just it - the server has two accounts both are password protected. But I was able to mount the network drive without asking for a password.

I'm sorry I misread your question. Do the opposite of what I said.
If your users use the same username and password it wont ask for it when you try to connect to the share. Using different usernames will cause it to ask for a username and password.

 

[Zoinks]

If your users use the same username and password it wont ask for it when you try to connect to the share. Using different usernames will cause it to ask for a username and password.

The user names are different. I think I may have mounted this network drive to this computer in the past. I must've said to remember the password. How can I go back and tell it to forget the password?