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Readyshare Issues
God I hope someone can help me with this issue. I'm pretty sure it's something simple I'm missing. I have AC1750 (C6300) Cable Modem with Xfinity service. I want to connect a USB drive to the rou...
Instead of ruining the very baseline security Microsoft has set in place on the newer Windows systems for good reasons (and many more), setting a write-password for the shared folder access and authenticate the shared folder map accordingly would be the much better approach.
schumaku wrote:
nextmilenium wrote:
Going into the router's GUI, I made sure the READ and WRITE accesses were set to 'no password'. So I'm not sure what the issue is?
What looks as a clever idea for simple access is denied by modern Windows systems. Non-authenticated share access was abused over years for malicious activities. Strongly suggest to set a password for write access.
I could cry ....
I’m a novice when it comes to these IT stuff so please be patient.
With my current setting of No Password for Read or Write access to my mapped USB drive plugged into my router, anyone who wants to hack into it would need to hack into my router first since I did not enable Internet access (only local access)?
With my current setting of No Password for Read or Write access to my mapped USB drive plugged into my router, anyone who wants to hack into it would need to hack into my router first since I did not enable Internet access (only local access)?
nextmilenium wrote:
I’m a novice when it comes to these IT stuff so please be patient.Even worse my friend: At a rule of thumb: If you have to open the Windows registry to change your Windows system behavior, take it as a bad idea, take it as proof for lack of lacking security awareness. Even if some lazy people promote such "fixes". They don't know, what they do....
nextmilenium wrote:
With my current setting of No Password for Read or Write access to my mapped USB drive plugged into my router, anyone who wants to hack into it would need to hack into my router first since I did not enable Internet access (only local access)?Never heard about viruses or malware to start with? Welcome to the year 2023!
nextmilenium wrote:
I’m a novice when it comes to these IT stuff so please be patient.
With my current setting of No Password for Read or Write access to my mapped USB drive plugged into my router, anyone who wants to hack into it would need to hack into my router first since I did not enable Internet access (only local access)?The problem here isn't the USB drive. It's that relaxing the security built into Windows opens up the PC to more malware attacks - particularly when you are not home, and are using a hotspot or guest network.That is why Microsoft adjusted their security in the first place.
A better plan is to set up passwords on the USB drive. Then you can (if you wish) store those passwords in the PC using the Windows Credentials Manager.
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