Do you want to move or copy files from this zone?
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(Note that pretty much all details may vary a little for different windowses).
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UNCs, Network drives
Windows explorer and Internet Explorer sensibly consider network computers unsafe by default, and there have been a few different bugs, e.g. recognizing LANs as internet sites and so continually pop up warnings.
One reason this happens is a bug when you use a an "FQDN or IP address contains periods". You'll note that IPs always do, and FQDNs almost always do.
One easy way around that is to adress the local network server by a name without periods -- although there are of course variou settings in which this isn't possible, or the best solution.
Another way is to make your internet settings trust the host.
Downloaded files (IE)
Another reason is that a windows component (IE, other) marks downloaded/attached files (only on NTFS; this information is in alternate streams), so that for potentially dangerous files it can warn you about that later.
(In Windows Servers it seems to be part of a (configurable and removable) component called Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration. I don' t
Zone settings
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Go to Control Panel → Internet Options → Security (tab)
You can also get here by double clicking the zone indicator in an explorer window's status bar
You can, for example, add sites to intranet/trusted site/host list, e.g.:
- \\10.0.0.1 (will show up as file://10.0.0.1)
- www.example.com
- *.example.com
