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How do I share folders in Windows 7 with the Shared Folder Wizard?

How many of your Windows folders are shared?

why not just right click on the folder in explorer and choose share? why do you need a wizard?

Because, Jack Wallen has an ulterior motive, namely to illustrate how much more time one has to spend setting up a Windows machine to share a folder compared to Linux. His next blog post will be something along the lines of "Last post showed you how to use the wizard to share a folder in Windows. This post will show you how much easier it is to do in Linux by issuing a simple BASH script."

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the headline/author combo, I figured there's either something wrong w/Jack (bad fall skateboarding?) or he has an ulterior motive.

I'm surprised he didn't have you open cmd first and run the wizard from there.

Now if someone wants to post something very useful, how the heck do you turn off upnp and ssdp services in vista/7?

I can block them at the firewall (both in and out) and disable (allegedly) the services, but I still see a lot of SSDP and multicast blathering on the LAN, all coming from either vista or win7.

And if Jack really wants to try to make windows look 'bad,' how about a "see how simple this is?" tutorial about using that advanced firewall control!

This is Jack's way of showing how much he knows about Windows [let alone Windows 7].

Shows how much he knows. For example, you can share the My Documents but permissions need to be shared. or verify the file & printer sharing is enabled in the NIC's settings.

Of course he mentions NOTHING about homegroups.

For anyone using a network big enough to have Active Directory, this is a really bad idea. Why? Because too many people just share out their entire Documents directory or C drives without thinking about the security implications. A much smarter was of doing this is to have a centrally managed share on the server, and a Group Policy that prevents users from sharing drives at all.

J.Ja