Permissions and Dollars

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Permissions & Dollars

Windows 98 is not very secure when it comes to sharing files. However, there are some things you can do to prevent people from accessing your files. The simplest of all is to use passwords. When sharing a folder, you can specify two passwords, one that will allow a person to only read files, and the other that will also allow him or her to modify them. Secondly, you can share folders so that they are not visible on the network. When sharing a folder, if the share name ends with a dollar sign, it will not be visible in Network Neighborhood, but a person can access it by typing the full path to it (\\machinename\share$) in Windows Explorer. Thus, only the people who know that such a share exists can access it.

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