Connecting to a Windows Share Outside a Network...
Myself and a few other friends have been doing a lot of LAN games and such over the holiday break. We often share files over the network and leave our C drives shared. Now I never really considered this a security risk or anything at the time. Durring the week we were playing over the net and I wanted to send a friend of mine some files and it came to my curiostiy, couldnt I just send them to his shared folder if I had his IP? Well I couldnt for some reason and so I figured it wasnt a big deal and sent them through AIM.
Anyway what I really want to know is what are the security risks of sharing drives? If I leave my C drive shared is it vulnerable to people who want to steal my files? Since then I have put a password on my share and my friends have done the same. But if we wanted to send something to each other, is it possible to connect to the share, put in the password, and transfer the files??
My friend tried to conenct to my share like this:
\\myip-address\c (in IE)
but that didnt work he said. Is there a way to do it? and if so what are the risks I would be taking?