Even DOS was an operating system. Not a hidiously complex one, and is little more than the world's most interactive bootloader, but an operating system never the less.Windows isn't an operating system.
And before you start claiming Windows 9x was a glorified shell on DOS, I'll give you a hint; The true core of Win95 was not the Win32 API (User32/Kernel32/Shell32 and the 16 bit versions) but the VxDs and the VMM.
If you are not on a static IP, I would recomend setting up a DDNS account.Darth_Zod wrote:okay. i've figured out the folders bit. now. . . .where can i find the IP address for the server to give to others, and how to i determine which port it's set on for them to use? don't want to accidentally give someone access to a folder i don't want them seeing.
DDNS is Dynamic DNS, and there are dozens of free ones which allow you to setup a subdomain name and then update it when ever your IP changes. Todo this you have a little application which periodically checks your external IP by requesting the IP from a number of locations which report that stuff, and then updating the Dynamic DNS record hosted by a server.
I wish I could give you some more details, but I havent really experimented much with that stuff.