Mapping a remote drive with Win XP Pro?

[Guest]

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

 

[Bob S.]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.