@Home and NetBIOS

[dexter333]

Is there any way that I can share files over @Home using Network Neighborhood or the like. I don't want to use any dedicated programs but I will if I have to. It appears that @Home is blocking some ports because when I try to do a nbtstat on the person that I am going to share files with, the activity light on my cable modem does not light up at all even though it lights when I do a 1 byte ping to them. I am not sure if the packets are leaving the cable modem and they are being blocked in the cable modem or if they do not even leave my computer and it is a problem with my computer. From school, where they use an @Home connection (probably one cable modem from a house near the school because of the morons we have as tech admins [evidence being that they allow students to store over 3gb of MP3's on the server and they have the napster install file on the server]) and I can nbtstat my computer from there. But I can not nbtstat from my house.

Also, shouldn't I be able to goto start\run and type "\\ip.add.re.ss" and browse a computer? I have netbeui and netbios over tcp/ip is enabled but grayed out.

 

[BigDady92]

get rid of netbui..it should not be installed on ANY os on a cable modem as it can be hacked easily. Easiest way is to open an ftp server at your house and transer the files via a client at school to your home computer that way.

u-server or another one will do. Goto zdnet and look for ftpservers. This is by far the easiest way to do this. Sharing your PC over the cable modem makes it a very inviting target to hackers.

 

[BCYL]

Netbeui getting hacked easily? I thought Netbeui is non-routable thus won't get broadcast onto the internet like TCP/IP does...

 

[Wizkid]

NetBUEI isn't routable, so if you are trying to use file and printer sharing over the internet with it then it won't work. I'm not sure if @home blocks anything though...