Snow Leopard Sharing question

Long time reader, first time poster. Did some googling and searching here and couldnt find anything. Forgive me if this has been answered already.


Ok, just noticed this today. First a bit of background. Latest gen MBP, Running latest version of SL 10.6.8. I have file sharing turned on in System Preferences, but no directories listed as shared.

Now the weird part. If I connect my computer to my girlfriends via an ethernet cable, assign us each a static IP (i used 10.0.0.1 and .2). My mac shows up fine on my girlfriends machine, but if I connect to it, my entire user directory as well as whole hard drive shows up. Now granted I have to type in my user credentials to connect to my MBP from hers, but I was surprised to see these things being shared since they were not listed as "shared" under system preferences.

Is this normal? anyone know why this is happening?

Thanks!!

 

Thanks!! was a bit worried there. I do have to authenticate as myself or else nothing shows, but just wanted to verify all my files werent just out there for the taking!!