Snow Leopard Sharing question

[0hnoes]

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!!

 

[MacForScience]

Yes this is normal. You are authenticating as a user of the machine. Specifying the folders allows you to change who can access what, with or without a password and username. By default the only thing that should be accessible without a username and password is the public folder. If this is not the case, then you have an issue with your settings.

Cheers

 

[0hnoes]

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!!