eug wrote what I thing is an extremely useful comment that seems to have overlooked by everyone:
You can very easily share a single folder by using subst
to map it to a drive letter, and then selecting that drive in remote desktop.
Note that it's fairly easily to have problems with this method due to subst
performing the mapping only for the user under which it is run.
So I recommend to run everything from a single command prompt:
- Open a command prompt (Win+R -> cmd)
- Type
subst <lettertomap>: <pathtofolder>
- Type
mstsc
(which launches Remote Desktop)
Keep in mind that the subst
mappings are not persistent across reboots, of course, so this is mostly convenient for a one-time session of file transfer.
There are actually also other ways to do the mapping, see raymond.cc .
And yes, the mapping does seem to disallow access to the rest of the drive, although I wouldn't bet my life that it doesn't have chroot-like "vulnerabilities" (assuming it is supposed to be secure in the first place).