Re: sharing files over network with XP Home and PHP?

Something you probably didn't notice is that it doesn't make that much of a difference.. Not on home anyway.. The normal system service user can access those files as well (well, they have the same access anyway).. The only difference I've seen is that now I can access shared network files as well.. If you need security, don't even consider XP, and even more not home.. Now, if you can tell me a security hole I've opened (apart from network access which was my goal with this), I'll take back my suggestion.. -- // DvDmanDT MSN: dvdmandt¤hotmail.com Mail: dvdmandt¤telia.com "Mikey" <frak@totalise.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet news:E1CspT9-000KA5-R6@smtp2.global.net.uk... > > >When having firewalls and stuff that shouldn't really be a problem.. Also, > >notice that I would only recommend it for home users.. The reason I want it > >as admin is to give it full access to everything so.. And why I want that? > >So that I can do just about anything you could possibly think of.. Using > >FFI > >if necessary.. Besides.. Is it really _that_ big differense? I know some > >differences, but how much of it would matter in this case? Access to > >everyones documents and what else (in home edition that is)? XP anyway have > >a feature that I have a feeling will give access to any users anyway.. > > What you choose to do on your network is up to you, of course, but I think > it is very bad practice to offer advice on a PHP mailing list that advises > people that have machines (potentially connected to the internet) set up > with wide open shares and apache running as Administrator. I am not so sure > that you cannot set the permissions of the folder correctly anyway, and it > is only my lack of Windows XP that has stopped me from commenting on this. > > If you wish to employ bad practice for your own home setup that is fine, > please don't post to this group (which is archived and will be searched) and > advocate similar practice for everybody else. > > If your firewall is the built in XP one, don't rely on it at all, I have > read reports of the SP2 version of this being hacked within a couple of days > of it being released. Be warned - you run Apache as administrator, with wide > open shares at your own risk - your system registry is a file, your > passwords are stored in a file, your system is on that HD - do you really > want to risk some 14yo script kiddie smashing your machine just cos you left > the doors wide open? > > Mikey