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mast3r

mast3r

mast3r

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I go to a lot of lans, and just recently there have been some new faces there, and i noticed that a few of us have had people trying to access files on our pcs, is there any other way than drive encryption to stop this,
i mean its not hard \\compname\c$ etc so i just wanna protect my pron and personal dox. I Often get off for some kip early is and leave many still gaming (or hunting through our data) i can obv turn off file sharing, and when i go to sleep, dissable lan, and lock my case so cant be pwrd on.
Many thanks

Martin
 
Just choose a specific folder to share rather than the whole drive. If you're taking the machine and connecting to unknown LANS you don't want personal data on your PC anyway, if your account gets hacked then only encryption with separate pswd will help. Get yourself an external drive and move personal stuff onto that.
 
ext hard drives, i can sell OCUK some of them
i have 10 500gb ext ESATA drives, i have 6 internal drives, i am the lan file sharing noob, BUT if you share only one file you can still get accses to all roots. I just need to know, will drive encryption slow accsessssssss times down?
 
Full disc encryption will slow you down, yes.
You can disable administrative shares . Look it up on ye old Google.

If anyone has a Linux livecd they can snoop all they want when you go to sleep anyway. :)
 
idd, i like to do this to, you can also do this with Live XP but it screw over the users file permissions. i think i will just lock my case when im off to sleep so it can not be powered on, and when it is on i will hopefully come across somthing to stop the traffic, anyone know if there is a port i can block?

maybe its time to hop on down to the networking section.
 
why dont you buy;
Icy Dock MB-454SPF 4-Bay Internal SATA Drive Enclosure

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-018-BT&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=72

you can buy extra caddies for additional hard drives as well. very solid built etc if there individual drives ie not raid, then there plug and play.
you can also do raid 1 and 0 but you have to switch pc on and off for this to work correctly as you cannot plug, unplug the raid arrays , single drives no problems.

ps sorry about the you's , had to do this quick, I'am tiling atm.
 
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If you are sharing your files, then disk encryption won't stop this happening.

All the encryption does is encrypts the contents, once you unlock the encryption by logging in etc then people will still be able to access your files, change the files etc.

It will however stop people accessing your drive with linux live cd's etc, but won't stop network access to a box that is active and logged in.
 
the Icy Dock would be great, but i have no space, i have i LianLi PC-201 with two 120.3 rads so all the space in the bays is taken up by pumps etc.

I will just take a big stick and point it at them lan noobs!
 
I wonder if i can use that icy box ext of the case, i really like the idea of that now mate!
even with your sarcasm !
 
yes you can , you will need four external sata connections and 2 for the power.

I'am using at the moment as well as the 6 internal sata connections, one raid card adaptec and another from well know hi street store both are pc iexpress x1 connections
giving me additional 4 sata connectors

I also have 4 bridge boards mounted into an OLD external scsi cases, modified using firewire 800 pci card for the transfer.
 
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btw I have a antec 900
I'am getting the 12 hundred when I get the I7 in August , ie bit off price drop and hoping for the ssd drives to do the same :-) gonner get 2 off on stripe, Raid 0.
:-)
 
Phil2008 said:
Or just use a windows password, cos no one can gain access to your files then on the network??
Click to expand...

Not quite correct mate, OS passwords are not worth the bother, Simply boot disk to remove them, but once your logged in to your OS anyone on the lan can gain access with out being promted to enter a pass.

Thanks for all of your help chaps! i think i will just remove the power cab (its one of these fancy Square ones (in hope nobody else has a mac or a BeQuiet psu at the lans) lol
 
Oh, Im using vista on my main pc, and my 2nd pc needs my username and password to gain access to my files and printers im sharing on my main pc. But once you have put in the username and pass once, it doesnt ask you again.

The only reason I have a password is to stop ppl getting acces to my files from the net, would that stop ppl tho??
 
nope Like mast3r said, Just put an boot disc in to remove the password.

and LOts off People thought they were safe :-)
 
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