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Able to Mount File Share With File Print Sharing Off Will 10-28-2006
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Posted by Will on October 29, 2006, 1:05 am
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> It is really the server service that is the way to shut off
> sharing for the whole box with certainty.

By the way, if I shut down the Server service, I lose volume shadow copies.
Too many interdependencies in this software!

--
Will



Posted by Paul Adare on October 29, 2006, 1:18 am
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 microsoft.public.windows.server.security news group, Will <westes-
usc@noemail.nospam> says...

> I have a Windows 2003 server where I turned off File and Printer Sharing,
> then "shared" a folder in the root of the C: drive and had no problem
> mounting it locally as the t: drive. I then went to T: and was able to
> view all the files.
>
> Wow, apparently I don't understand this as well as I thought I did. How is
> it possible that file sharing can be enabled and works on a machine where
> File & Printer Sharing is turned off?!

Try connecting to the share from another computer on the network.
Connecting to a share on the local computer from the local computer does
not use the NIC so disabling F&P sharing on the NIC will have no impact
on what you're doing.

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Paul Adare - MVP Virtual Machines
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with the similar tantalisation that something,
sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld


Posted by Roger Abell [MVP] on October 29, 2006, 8:37 am
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> microsoft.public.windows.server.security news group, Will <westes-
> usc@noemail.nospam> says...
>
>> I have a Windows 2003 server where I turned off File and Printer Sharing,
>> then "shared" a folder in the root of the C: drive and had no problem
>> mounting it locally as the t: drive. I then went to T: and was able to
>> view all the files.
>>
>> Wow, apparently I don't understand this as well as I thought I did. How
>> is
>> it possible that file sharing can be enabled and works on a machine where
>> File & Printer Sharing is turned off?!
>
> Try connecting to the share from another computer on the network.
> Connecting to a share on the local computer from the local computer does
> not use the NIC so disabling F&P sharing on the NIC will have no impact
> on what you're doing.
>

Thank you, once again, Paul for your sharp eyes.
There was very much hiding in that little "locally" qualification.

Roger



Posted by Will on October 29, 2006, 4:43 pm
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> Thank you, once again, Paul for your sharp eyes.
> There was very much hiding in that little "locally" qualification.

I could have been clearer, sorry.

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Will



Posted by Will on October 29, 2006, 4:42 pm
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> microsoft.public.windows.server.security news group, Will <westes-
> usc@noemail.nospam> says...
>
> > I have a Windows 2003 server where I turned off File and Printer
Sharing,
> > then "shared" a folder in the root of the C: drive and had no problem
> > mounting it locally as the t: drive. I then went to T: and was able to
> > view all the files.
>
> Try connecting to the share from another computer on the network.
> Connecting to a share on the local computer from the local computer does
> not use the NIC so disabling F&P sharing on the NIC will have no impact
> on what you're doing.

Got it. That might actually be considered a feature. Thanks.

--
Will



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