Are 'songs' electric?

[cyrano]

This is a shout out to all my clever tek-enabled friends.
I have, in the vulgar parlance, a metric ass-load of music on my hard drive. My hard drive is connected to the intarwebs most of the time through DSL. (I think it's DSL. It might be a cable modem. The more I think about it, the more I think it is. If it's relevant I can find out.)
Is there a way I can, remotely, access my hard drive?
Is this something I want to do, given the security risks inherent in such a plan?

Comments

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

If you have a fixed IP address on that computer, it could be done. Personally, I'd want some really strong firewall software, possibly also only a single port open, and only open to a very short list of specific IPs (from which you'd most likely be trying to access the computer). But I'm paranoid. It could also be done with a dynamic IP, but you'd always have to be cognizant of what IP you were looking for, and it could change at any time (pretty much any time the modem loses contact with its host...when we had cablemodem that was typically daily or more often).

I have only a sketchy understanding of how these things work, though, and have never done it myself, so I could be totally talking out my rear.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

You are on cable modem, and I don't believe you can access your hard drive at home because it doesn't have a routable IP address from the Internet (since we're technically running a private network behind a firewall--the only Internet routable IP address we have is the IP address dynamically assigned by Comcast to our firewall router).

However, I may be wrong in interpreting this, so other people who are more tech-savvy than I may feel free to correct me. :)

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I totally failed to consider that aspect of it. I only have half a clue anyway, and the empty half is showing. =}