Notification when someone connects to my PC

Question

I share out a folder on my windows 7 machine. But, I would really like a notification to tell me when someone connects to it. Or I would like to at least be able to check at any one time who is looking at it?

Any tips?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Go to Start, right click Computer and choose Manage.

On the left side of the Computer Management window that appears expand the Shared Folders node. There you have three options:

• Shares shows you the folders currently shared on the machine
• Sessions shows you who is connected to those folders
• Open files shows who has what files open

To have a history of who accessed what and when, configure Windows 7 to log access to shared folders as Audit Events in the Event Log - follow these instructions.

You can also get software that will allow you to monitor the shares such as this.