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Windows Experience Blog — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:29:20 GMT

I’ve been a Windows Live FolderShare user for a while now. And I’ve blogged about FolderShare before

re: Announcing Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

MatthewG — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:13:33 GMT

Good news sputuk, you can disable this behavior. On the machine that you want to disallow remote file access, follow these steps:

1. In the notification area on the taskbar, click the FolderShare beta icon, point to More, and then click Settings.

2. Click the Transfers tab, and then clear the Allow web downloads from this computer check box.

3. Click OK

That computer's client files can no longer be accessed from the web.

re: Announcing Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

sputuk — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:46:09 GMT

I'd like to echo the comments from redredred.

I'm an IT support proffesional and became aware of this excellent seeming product/service from a user who was already using it.

I was initially excited by the prospect of being able to recomend a useful tool for staff who often work on multiple machines.

On further investigation however, I was disapointed to find the horrendous security hole this product punches by allowing remote access to all client files behind a single password - and that password is neither enforced to be strong nor even linked to an existing passport account.

If this product could tie in with remote authentication protocols to allow companies to enforce the security policies, then I could see this being adopted in various industries.

Until then, I couldn't even recomend this product for home use without the ability to disable this "share everything" behaviour.

It looks promising, but certainly needs more work before I'll be recomending it to anyone I'm afraid. I do look forward to it being fully integrated into Windows/Live with improved security option however.

re: Announcing Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

vista56rocks — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:47:51 GMT

Never-mind. As it says in the article "Windows Live FolderShare is a service that lets users sign-in to set up Libraries that consist of folders on multiple PCs". I found the answer to my question

re: Announcing Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

vista56rocks — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:45:44 GMT

Foldershare...Foldershare... I don't recall remembering that. I'll have to do my reasearch I guess...

I wonder if it's (it refering to FolderShare) enhanced in Vista as my Home Premuim here is so ready to go to Ultimate because of the lack of enhanced Vista software. Even though Ultimate Extras have a soon to be negligible amount of Ultimate Extra's, I don't care. Sorry for going on a tangent here.

re: Announcing Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

michal64 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:36:23 GMT

i have this installed on 2 computers, vista sp1 ult. works fine on one, crashes on the other every time, uninstall/reinstall didnt change anything.

re: Announcing Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

ChrisDenman45 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:26:07 GMT

WOW - thank you thank you thank you! What can I say! I have been waiting for AGES for an "official" folder synchronization solution that doesn't rely on some awful FTP server... and it's all free! You know what else this means? I can synchronize my IE favourites!

*Spins around in circles on chair with glee*

re: Announcing Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

windows vista ultimate user254 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:54:31 GMT

hey brandon about the languages and vista sp1 i got some question and please answer them

1: i only got the spanish and english of its language packs and english version of windows will i get windows vista sp1.

2: when is sp1 due its march 13

3:what with ultimate pc

4:and thank you for windows live foldershare i got 3 computers and i really need it....

re: Announcing Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

newscientist2000 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:36:15 GMT

Cool will have to install this when I reinstall Windows on my dual boot XP Vista machine, its getting kinda slow, probably because I install to much stuff and its 4+ years old and doesnt have much ram, and I'm waiting for some RMA'd ram to get back from Corsair. Then I'll have 1GB finally on my machine, cant wait!

re: Announcing Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

saladbar1 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:46:23 GMT

Back to my mac "cough cough"

re: Announcing Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

redredred — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:14:59 GMT

Thanks for taking the suggestion Brandon. I have some more, if it helps.

1. How about being able to turn off "Remote Access" while leaving on "Shared Libraries" and "Personal Libraries". I don't really like having my whole machine one password away from being accessible to the world.

...or...

2. How about being able to control which Folder(s) is/are visible from "Remote Access". I'd feel a little more comfortable about it if I could control where I start the remotely accessible tree.