How to setup remote access to Win2k box via internet?

[CplHicks]

Hello, I'm looking for instructions on how I can access my computer over the internet. I want to be able to access files on my home computer from work (mp3s ). Right now my computer at home is behind a NetGear Router/Hub and my computer at work is behind a SonicWall firewall and DSL router. I am a little concerned about security, I don't want to enable complete access to my computer, just selected folders. I would like to have access controlled by NT Authentication. Anybody have ides on how this could be done?

 

[randal]

shouldn't be a problem on the outgoing side [from work], unless they have locked down outgoing ports < 1024. As for the home one, open up port 139 and point it at the box you want to have. Then just share up the directory on your home machine, password protect it using nt permissions and you're done.

go start->run:: \\IP-Address-Of-Home-Computer\ShareName ...
it will prompt UID/PWD, fill it in and your connected.

I do it all the time =)
randal

 

[mgpaulus]

I do the same thing, but I use SSH. I have a netgear RT311 @ home, and I have opened up port 22. I run SSHd on my Linux box at home, but Cygwin by Redhat (http://www.cygwin.com) has a telnet/ftp/sshd setup (They provide a mostly unix environment on a Wintel platform). At work, I use a Cygwin SSH client to connect to my home machine. I can scp (secure copy) files in/out of home. I also have set up VNC (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/) on my windows machines. This allows me to actually interact with my home machine as if I was there (I've sat at work, and watched my wife play freecell....). You can set up some port forwarding with SSH to support this, and make it all secure.

Drop me a line if you are interested and/or need more specifics.

 

[CplHicks]

Thanks guys. It seems like all I've got to do is forward port 139 on the router to my computer's internal IP address. Plus setup ZoneAlarm to allow access from my work IPs.