Mapping a drive to a remote machine over the net

[Francis Tarcelo]

Is it possible to map a drive to a remote machine over the internet? Both
machines are behind a Netgear router.

I can use remote desktop bothways by forwarding port 3389 to the machine I
want to control BUT what I want is access to files on the remote machine
without using Remote Desktop because I don't want to interrupt what the user
is doing on the other machine while I'm accessing the files.

Thanks in advance,

Francis

 

[Peter]

Is it possible to map a drive to a remote machine over the internet? Both

machines are behind a Netgear router.

I can use remote desktop bothways by forwarding port 3389 to the machine I
want to control BUT what I want is access to files on the remote machine
without using Remote Desktop because I don't want to interrupt what the user
is doing on the other machine while I'm accessing the files.

It is possible but dangerous.

 

[Guest]

In principle yes, but the security aspects are important.

To do t his you need to map port 445 (or ports 137-139) However it would be
highly advisable to have some kind of encryption on the data, as the netbios
ports are easily attacked. You could achieve this wth Zebedee or SSH.

The other alternatives are VPN, or a secure form of FTP server. (Filezilla
Server in TLS mode, for example.)

 

[Francis Tarcelo]

Thanks Ian. I was hoping I could do it without using VPN because I tried
several times setting up the VPN server on my XP pro machine but I have
never been successful in getting a connection from outside. I can't tell
whether it's the router settings or the VPN server settings that's not
correct.

Can you point me to a good website source for setting up an FTP server?

Thanks again,
--Francis--

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

How about Secure Shell (SSH) and use WinSCP if you just want to be able to
access files? That works well for me...

http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.ph...er_op=view_page&PAGE_id=12&MMN_position=22:22
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/Private-publicKey.html

http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/index.php

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/RemoteDesktopSSH.html

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[Francis Tarcelo]

Thanks Al, I'll try that. I haven't done this in the past so it might be
quite challenging. I'll post back if I run into any problems.

Thanks again,
--Francis--