security of sharing notebooks paul g s 10/17/2008 4:23:01 AM I want to keep my notebooks synced on my 2 laptops. If i make them shared does that mean anyone on the network can get at them? i have a wireless router at home and in my office. I've enable sharing and notebooks sync okay but are they visible and accessible to everyone else on the network as well? how do i secure this? thanks

Re: security of sharing notebooks Ilya Koulchin <ikoulchine[ at ]hotmail.com> 10/17/2008 11:04:00 PM paul g s wrote: [Quoted Text] > I want to keep my notebooks synced on my 2 laptops. If i make them shared > does that mean anyone on the network can get at them? i have a wireless > router at home and in my office. I've enable sharing and notebooks sync okay > but are they visible and accessible to everyone else on the network as well? > how do i secure this? OneNote relies on the underlying security provided by Windows and the network, and does not provide any additional transport-level security. If you have an unsecured wireless network, then anyone within wireless range could potentially read the data, but the same would be true for all other communications going over your network as well. To secure the data in your notebooks you'd need to configure the computer they're stored on to only give you access, and you'd want to use a secure wireless connection to connect to the server. Another option is to password-protect all your OneNote sections. OneNote will encrypt all the content in a password-protected section, so that noone else could read it without knowing the password, even if the section is stored on an unsecure server or is accessed over an unsecure network.

Re: security of sharing notebooks "Rainald Taesler" <taesler[ at ]gmx.de> 10/18/2008 1:09:26 AM paul g s wrote: [Quoted Text] > I want to keep my notebooks synced on my 2 laptops. If i make them > shared does that mean anyone on the network can get at them? i have > a wireless router at home and in my office. I've enable sharing and > notebooks sync okay but are they visible and accessible to everyone > else on the network as well? how do i secure this? In addition to Ilya's reply: As Ilya has said, the security issue are just the same a with any other data in your networked system. In addition to password-protecting the ON notebooks you might work with the security settings of your network: Just set the rights for the shared volume to *your* user account. The "Administrator" would still have access to the volume (unless you'd make use of the OS' encryption features) but no-one else. Rainald

Re: security of sharing notebooks "Rainald Taesler" <taesler[ at ]gmx.de> 10/18/2008 1:10:26 AM paul g s wrote: [Quoted Text] > I want to keep my notebooks synced on my 2 laptops. If i make them > shared does that mean anyone on the network can get at them? i have > a wireless router at home and in my office. I've enable sharing and > notebooks sync okay but are they visible and accessible to everyone > else on the network as well? how do i secure this? In addition to Ilya's reply: As Ilya has said, the security issues are just the same as with any other data in your networked system. In addition to password-protecting the ON notebooks you might work with the security settings of your network: Just set the rights for the shared volume to *your* user account. The "Administrator" would still have access to the volume (unless you'd make use of the OS' encryption features) but no-one else. Rainald

Re: security of sharing notebooks paul g s 10/18/2008 3:00:01 AM thanks for the answers. i need to make the question clearer. can i secure my ON notebooks from other authorized network users when i want to have them shared between my 2 pc's. one pc has xp pro the other xp home. "Rainald Taesler" wrote: [Quoted Text] > paul g s wrote: > > > I want to keep my notebooks synced on my 2 laptops. If i make them > > shared does that mean anyone on the network can get at them? i have > > a wireless router at home and in my office. I've enable sharing and > > notebooks sync okay but are they visible and accessible to everyone > > else on the network as well? how do i secure this? > > In addition to Ilya's reply: > As Ilya has said, the security issues are just the same as with any > other > data in your networked system. > > In addition to password-protecting the ON notebooks you might work with > the security settings of your network: > Just set the rights for the shared volume to *your* user account. > The "Administrator" would still have access to the volume (unless you'd > make use of the OS' encryption features) but no-one else. > > Rainald > > >

Re: security of sharing notebooks "Rainald Taesler" <taesler[ at ]gmx.de> 10/19/2008 6:05:02 PM paul g s wrote: [Quoted Text] >>> I want to keep my notebooks synced on my 2 laptops. If i make them >>> shared does that mean anyone on the network can get at them? i >>> have a wireless router at home and in my office. I've enable >>> sharing and notebooks sync okay but are they visible and >>> accessible to everyone else on the network as well? how do i >>> secure this? >> >> In addition to Ilya's reply: >> As Ilya has said, the security issues are just the same as with any >> other >> data in your networked system. >> >> In addition to password-protecting the ON notebooks you might work >> with the security settings of your network: >> Just set the rights for the shared volume to *your* user account. >> The "Administrator" would still have access to the volume (unless >> you'd make use of the OS' encryption features) but no-one else. > > thanks for the answers. i need to make the question clearer. can i > secure my ON notebooks from other authorized network users when i > want to have them shared between my 2 pc's. one pc has xp pro the > other xp home. As Ilya already said: Use password protection for the sections you want to keep away from others. Just right-click on a section's label in the navigation pane and select "Password Protection" for the section. Rainald