Hey Guys n Gals
Just a wee heads up if anyone bought their little bundles of joy a PS3 for Christmas. We got one for our 10 year old and are in the middle of setting it up. Now due to his age I used my email address to link it to the internet. Kandi has just went up to make sure it is all working okay and realised that my darling 10 year old son has full access to our profile on the laptop! Yes, every single one of our pictures can be seen on my sons tv from his playstation! We are in the process of figuring out how to change all the settings but just wanted to raise your awareness just in case you haven't checked this for yourself. Boxing day could have been very interesting in our house if we had not noticed this
The PS3 bypassed all our passwords on the laptop and gave him access to all our photos! We are still trying to sort it out and see what exactly has happened.
My son does not have access to any passwords or anything to do with security in relation to settings on the computer. I am the administrator with full control of settings and he has a basic profile on the laptop with restrictions. No passwords have been put into the playstation. Somehow, the playstation has full access to the laptop on the same IP address. My profile is password protected...even Kandi doesn't know it! and yet the playstation has full access to my account on the laptop.
I don't get how he would know to even look for your profile on his playstation?
I'm on the same network as my other half and my son, but they can't access my laptop.
Look at the 'media sharing' part of your laptop.
And in relation to our swinging account, We use a seperate email address from everything else for added security. I simply used my normal everyday email address to register the playstation. However the playstation is connected to the same wireless router and from here has given itself access to the profiles on my wireless network. No password information has been required on the console for this. It is a just a heads up for others to ensure they check their security settings on their laptop and not just assume that the safety of the windows password is all that is required. File sharing was enabled between kandi and my profile to ensure we had access to photos etc ( the childrens profile does not have access to this file sharing ) however the playstation automatically gave itself access to any shared files on your home network regardless of passwords put in place.
I hope this makes it a bit clearer
You have to check which equipment you want to share the media. If your photos are shared on your network, you need to tell it not to share them with the playstation.
And regarding access to the site, if you need to use passwords to get in, then he'd still have to enter the password to get on SH.
Since the PS3 is accessing the internet as well, and don't they check to make sure you aren't cracking their security and downloading films etc onto the PS3? Does that mean the people at Sony also have access to all your photos?
Isn't all this technology wonderful. I'm really sorry but I had to have a little chuckle at your predicament. I'm glad you got it sorted.
Pete
Are you sharing you photos for viewing via windows media player?. the only way the PS3 could see stuff shared on your laptop is that way. the PS3 can't view shared network files.
I have to say...
I wish that when I was a 10 year old, I had such photogenic sexy parents as you two... :rascal:
I dont know what I tried it was some time ago. Think I tried setting the 360 in a DMZ but it still didnt work :-? Will look at it again, the network has altered a bit so may get more luck.
Could we have the techy bit in non techy language!! i would so like to now check that my son's ps3 (when he is home) and my daughters lappys - which use my wireless thingy cant get to my pics :-?
Thankyou for the non technical information. Tried the create a folder suggestion, and that appears to have worked. Must admit though, for us non technical minded grown ups, its quite a worry what you may access on these game stations
??: I have Ps3 and Xbox 360 and to share files you have to allow media sharing. I have actually tried to get this to work and cant get it working 
My PC and PS3 or Xbox 360 can never detect each other, became annoying so I gave up. All I wanted to do was stream film from the PC to the Xbox 360 in the front room. How you have managed to set it up without event trying is a mystery :lol:
However the 360 fails to detect a pc 
