At 12:30 PM 12/29/2004 -0600, you wrote:

>If Windows File and Printer Sharing is implemented behind a firewall 
>router, is this a security risk?
>
>I have two computers, one printer, and a home network on a Linksys 
>firewall router.  File and Printer sharing is enabled to allow both 
>computers to print.  So far neither computer is set up to share it's 
>files, although that would of course be an option.  Each computer of 
>course has it's own software firewall and virus software and Windoze 
>security holes is updated regularly.
>
>How secure is such an arrangement?
>
>--Lawrence the Paranoid

What O/S?  Win2K has permissions and passwords that you can set up.

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