microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

A slightly lateral approach, if you turn off the Computer Browser and Server
services on desktops, that will stop users from creating or finding
unauthorised shared resources. It will also improve your security somewhat.

As such it won't stop someone connecting an unauthorised computer, but it
will to some extent mitigate the security risks which that poses.

You can (obviously) only do this if all of your resources are centrally
hosted, it would not be suitable if you (for example) rely on peer-shared
printers.


"Bill Board" wrote:

> Recently a new workgroup/domain appeared in our "Network Neighborhood >
> Microsoft Windows Network" We are running Windows 2003 Server with
> Windows XP Pro workstations in our network.