Accessing Public Folders on Someone Else's Computer

ebiz

When you are on a Sprint or other wireless connection and want an associate to be able to pull documents out of your public folder, if the ip address below was active, what would they put in their browser address bar to access your non password protected public folder (\\SRM-TX2000Z\Public)?

C:\Users\SRM>ipconfig
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::6823:35f7:9e95:3431%11
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.21
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.254

Handy way to colloborate on projects without cluttering email.
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Fox McCloud · EVDO Junkie Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 599

ebiz · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Fox. I used ipconfig to get the addresses 2 messages back at a local coffee shop while on open WiFi. The following iaddresses resulted from an ipconfig command when using the Novatel EX720 on NDIS mode. It is the same IP address I see when going to whatsmyip.org or whatismyipaddress.com.

Ethernet adapter Novatel NDIS:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 70.6.216.58
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.0.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 70.6.216.1

So the question remains: would a biz associate simply use http://70.6.216.58/SRM-TX2000Z/Public to access documents in my public folder, so long as I permitted public access and placed them there?

Any Public Folder sharers, please chime in.
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SlyFerret · EVDO User Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 70

I think the easiest thing to do would be to install an FTP server on your PC so that he can connect in and download/upload files that he needs.

This one is pretty easy to setup on Windows, and it's FREE! (as in beer)

-SF

Fox McCloud · EVDO Junkie Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 599

I would ask Sprint, themselves; you better have a really good excuse though; they may suspect that you just want to know so you can snoop around other people's public folders.

Anyway, I really have no idea, and really didn't know that Sprint could even do this.

CrispyFried · EVDO User Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 35

I think FTP would be the way to go also.

your firewall and/or router may block him though, youll need to configure both.