How to prevent Bandwidth Leeching on my images need help

[knighty]

Hi everybody im really new on this 4images and i have currently installed it on my site. Now the common problem i face is  Bandwidth Leeching or hotlinking of my images by some other people, this can be very burdensome on my site. Is there anyway i can disable this copying of imagelocation on my 4images gallery? need help.

[mawenzi]

... search for "htaccess" ...
... or try this ... http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=16166.msg86424#msg86424

[knighty]

Where to find the "htaccess"  on my web site?

[mawenzi]

... you must create your own .htaccess file and upload it in your web directory ...
... for more details ... please use the forum search or google ...

[thunderstrike]

.htaccess is only if linux. If windows, no .htaccess exist.