I have Win XP Home installed on both my hard wired desktop and my wireless
laptop.  The desktop and laptop are connected through a home network and
everything is working great.

I have a second hard drive on my desktop which I would like to have access
to on my laptop.  Is it safe to set the drive as shared and then map the
drive on my laptop?  Is this the best way to do this or is there another way
to make it a network drive?

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:44:01 -0700, pad <p**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

If the drive in question was a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device, you could
attach directly to it from your laptop computer.  If it's part of the desktop
computer, you have to share it from the desktop computer.

Now if you want to know if it's safe, then you have to ask if your security,
overall, is enough.  With Windows XP Home, anything accessible to anybody (on
the network) is accessible to everybody (on the network).  Is your network safe?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/please-protect-yourself-layer-your.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/please-protect-yourself-layer-your.html

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