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  1. Apr 21st, 2003, 08:32 AM #1
    Allen Schoessler
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    Question about routers

    If I use a router to share a connection between 3 computers, am I correct in believing that network shares on the computers are not accessable to the outside world?

    Question being: if I share the full C:\ drive on one computer behind the router, will I have security issues?

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    If the PC behind the router has a public IP address, and the router is doing unfiltered routing, yes, you could have issues (add a password, though, and you remove most of them).

    If you're using a NAT router with private addressing, then nobody can connect directly to your machine because it doesn't "exist" on the internet.
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  3. Apr 21st, 2003, 05:59 PM #3
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    Each PC has it's own private address - the router will be the only one with a public address....

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