I was asked to work as a consultant/programmer in this one company and I was asked to assist them on the job that their EDP officer has left behind. I turned down their offer for the EDP post as I do not really like the role of their EDP. For one, you have to handle the network. I do not have a background in networking as I had no job that required me to do things in a network (except for the connection to the server and the database when I am developing a system of course). Another one is that everyone in the office would run to you every time something goes wrong with their PC or the printer, etc. Personally? I would just bring my PC to the nearest computer shop and let a technician check it out. Not that I do not want to learn. I just got tired from doing such thing before (when I was working in a skeleton-company).

Anyhow, I agreed to do my project (a system) for them and I agreed to work in their office so they could still consult with me (and I could try to help) when something goes wrong (since they don't have a new EDP officer yet).

And here's one scenario that I had to help them with-- scan an image and send it to one of the user's PC via network. Ok. I know about the My Network Place and clicking on the existing network and computers. I knew that I was given an administrator access as well as it's privilege (or the power that goes with it). I was confident I could paste the scanned image on this one computer. I was confident until I failed. I had no idea where to paste it since there are no folders available for me to put the file to. And it's not possible to create a folder either.

That day, I ended up emailing the file to the user and swear I'd ask someone who knows about it. And I did.

Yesterday, I learned about the power of C$ when I am inside a network. It will display the entire folders and files of the owner of the computer that you went thru via My Network Place. You just have to add "\C$" to the address bar, and viola! You can do anything on a certain computer! I also learned that the stuff that I saw were just the shared items on that user's computer (it so happened that they were just printers and fax, hence, it's impossible to paste anything).

I tried searching some more about this C$ so I can share more here, but couldn't find anything accurate. If you're reading this and you happen to know more about it, please be generous and leave some comments in this post.

I need to learn some more.

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