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Want to share files one-way only
There are lots of people asking for help when they have two computers that will share files in one direction but not the other. I have two computers that share files in both directions, but I want it to be only in one direction.
One computer, running Windows 7, is my Internet computer, and the computer that will get infected or attacked if I run into nasties online. The other, running Windows 10, is my compute server, for running massive computations, and also for backing up my Win 7 computer's drives. I want the Windows 10 computer to be able to copy files from the Win 7 computer, but I don't want an attacker that takes over the Win 7 computer to be able to delete, modify, or encrypt files on the Win 10 computer.
I know that I can simply not share any directories on the Win 10 computer, but to be safer, I don't want it even to accept incoming connections from the Win 7 computer.
I think I could set this up if I knew what "turn on file and printer sharing" does. but I can't find any info on what goes on under the hood when you press that button, other than that it creates a new firewall rule.