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Bind shares to a NIC

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by moboking, 2004/12/29.

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  1. 2004/12/29
    moboking

    moboking Inactive Thread Starter

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    Let's say I have a Windows XP Pro machine that have 2 NICs. Is it possible to bind a particular shared resource such as a drive, directory, or printer to just one NIC? I know that I can statically assigned an IP to a NIC but can I bind only one of many shared folders on this PC to just this NIC so that any other PCs in the same subnet as the NIC can only see this folder and not the others? Conversely, the other NIC has a different IP subnet and the remaining shares are bind to this NIC so other PCs sharing the same subnet can only have access to the resources that are bind to this NIC?

    I know that I can use VLAN to achieve something like this. But switches that support VLAN are still pricey compared to "simply" adding a second (or third) cheap NIC to the PC. I also am aware of assigning access permissions to these shares, but doing so is rather messy because I have to add all the users accounts in the workgroup on each of the computers.
     
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    Binding in the context of network cards doesn't work that way. You can only decide which network protocol loaded on a particular card will work with features like File & Printer Sharing or Client for Microsoft Networks.

    The picture below is from my XP PC where I only have TCP/IP loaded so unchecking either of the bindings would disable that feature but if I also had NetBEIU and IPX, I could chose which would not be used.
     
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