WAN File Sharing

[Dave]

I'm looking to Share a folder on my Vista Ultimate machine. I want this
folder to be accessible via the WAN. Simply put, is this possible? I have not
found information going either way right now.

Firewall is using Windows One Care

What I've tried:
-Enabling File Sharing.
-Enabling Public File Sharing.
-Enabled Firewall exception for File Sharing.
-Disabled Firewall
-Enabled Router port forwarding for UDP 137,138 TCP 139,445
-Enabled DMZ on Router for the PC

I don't want to do this via VPN connection

Basically I've tried all I know. So I'm assuming this can't be done,
security reasons for this?Probably. I can't even telnet into the above ports
to see if it will accept the connection. RDP with port forwarding works fine
as does Web Access.


Reason? I do programming at both Home and Work, but would like a centralized
location of where the projects are stored. If I could get to my Home PCs
Shared Folder using the UNC path, that would be great.

 

[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
Putting a computer in the DMZ exposes it to the Internet, a Very Bad Idea.
If you do not want to use Remote Desktop and VPN you can try to use UltraVNC
with Encryption, it needs to forward only one port. through the Router, and
the computer's Firewall.
The following two links have most of the information needed for such
project.
http://www.ezlan.net/myip.html
http://www.ezlan.net/vnc.hyml
Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[Dave]

Jack,

Thanks for the reply.

Correct, a PC using DMZ is unsafe. I have other protection including a
firewall. Even so, I don't even use DMZ, I use it strictly when I have port
forwarding issues. Helps me determine if another port needs to be
forwarded.....test purposes only!

As for VNC. I've used this as well and this isn't really what I was looking
for. I don't need a program to remote control my PC. I need to just be able
to access file shares with out using a remote control program.

For instance, if I have 3-4 PCs on my network I could share out one folder
and access/Map a drive to: \\192.168.1.101\Documents

I need to do this same thing but via WAN. So: \\WAN IP\Documents. I have a
feeling this probably isn't possible but asking just to make sure. I need
access to both read and write in this folder. So setting up a virtual
Directory in IIS won't do either.

Thanks for the input!
-Dave-

 

[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

HI
You do not have to remote control with UltraVNC it has a File transfer
module you use the program to log in and you use the File Transfer Module.
looks like this, http://www.ezlan.net/example/vnc_file.jpg
Otherwise this is another type of solution,
http://www.webdrive.com/products/webdrive/index.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[Dave]

Thanks, I'll into this.

I also just found "Live Mesh" which is still in Beta but looks to be exactly
what I need. Not exactly sure yet but it diff is looking good so far.