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Preventing others on network from viewing my shared folders
I’m running Windows 7 Home Premium on the three machines I have at home. All three are connected to the same network. I would like to share files between two of the machines so I created a homegroup and added only these two machines. For the folders I would like to share between the two, I changed the folder’s sharing permission from “Everyone’ to ‘Homegroup’.
What I have noticed is the third machine that is not part of this homegroup (it is owned by a student who is temporarily renting a room in our house) is still able to view the other machines from within windows explorer and even double click on them to get a listing of folders that are being shared. Granted, when they try to open any of these folders, they get a message saying they do not have the required permission.
Ideally, I would like to have the homegroup machines only visible in explorer to users who are part of the homegroup. Likewise, any user not in the homegroup would not be able to see the other machines in explorer. Is this setup possible?