[ale] Firewalling question

[Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu]

At 09:39 AM 5/6/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I would hope that there would be a way to keep his machine(s) from showing 
>up in
>Network Neighborhood on other machines in the first place; I figure his stuff
>would be harder to hack if you didn't know what the machines' names were.

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And now for today's tip... 

HIDING A MACHINE FROM NETWORK BROWSERS 

You can hide a machine from network browsers, yet still have it 
available for connection. The process is simple. You'll use NT's 
Registry Editor to modify the following key: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters 

To hide a machine, set the value Hidden from 0 to 1, and restart your 
system. You can still connect to the computer, but the browser won't 
display it. 

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