Mapping a remote drive with Win XP Pro?

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I have a server at the office on a NAT network that has shares available. I
can map the shares from a winXP Pro if I am on the local network but not if I
am at home. I keep getting the error "The network path \\server\share\ not
found". I'm using the IP as the server name.

After some testing here's the problem:
ON Win XP Pro I cannot map a shared drive unless I am on the same subnet
On Win 2000 I can map a shared drive from anywhere, local or remote
On Mac OS X I can map a shared drive from anywhere, local or remote
On Mac OS 9 I can map a shared drive from anywhere, local or remote
So it appears to be a Win XP issue, probably firewall related, so I turned
off the firewall to no avail. I turned off simple file sharing too.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
Randy,

Perhaps I'm missing something here but you did not tell us what you're using
to access the server at work.

You're trying to go thru a NAT router which has a WAN side IP address and
either using DHCP or hard-wired addressing on the LAN side - so what are you
addressing when you try to map the drive? Are you using a VPN and do you
have the router configured to allow the VPN port address (i.e. 1723) through
? Is the server setup for a VPN connection?

Bob S.
 
Actually, I'm not using any vpn at all. I just select "map drive" and type in
\\216.199.92.166\Transfer\ (thats the public IP, the private one is
10.1.1.166)
It prompts me for my name and password when I do it from a win2000 box and
then maps the drive correctly, but from a Win XP Pro SP2 box it gives me the
error.
another thing: when I go from a Mac and access afp://216.199.92.166/ it
gives me the drive but if I type smb://216.199.92.166/ it just times out.

I'll even give a temp account to a blank share if you wanna try it out.
 
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