Letting every comp see the external net hood

alocurto

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I have an internet conection sharing box w/ windows 2000 pro on it. It allows all my other machines on my little lan to get to the internet through the internet sharing box. I was wondering if there was a way to get all the machines sharing the connection to view the external network neighborhood the router is on. I think that is pretty clear, anyone know how to do this?

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BoNeZ

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If you're actually seeing systems sitting out on the internet from your ICS box, then I'm assuming that you have a cable modem. As far as allowing your machines behind the ICS box to see those machines on the outside network, I'm not sure that it can be accomplished with ICS. Normally you can't see anything in the net neighborhood once you pass a router. However a router can be configured to pass certain netbios information though so that windows machines can see othar win machines on the other side of the router. Considering your router is Win2K ICS, I'm really not sure it will work. You may try changin over from ICS to NAT. This may allow you to do what you're asking. NAT is also a connection sharing feature of Win2K, but works in a slightly different manner.

Hope this helps.

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alocurto

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Well, I am on a college network. This school uses token ring (Don't ask) so I route to my ethernet network. I don't know if it is possible to do what I want but I thought maybe somebody has seen this done before. THanks for the info. If anyone else has ideas please post.


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alocurto

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Let me post 1 more thing...

I just want to have access to certain drives on the big lan outside my little ethernet. I map them on my routing machine but then can't map them again. ANyone now of a way to share shares? I guess I could ftp but there has to be some way to accomplish this.



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jsm

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There are a couple issues with what you are trying to do.

Bascially, there has to be some machine out there with a browse list with all the names of the machines on the network. Also, NetBIOS is not routable protocol, though I am sure there are ways around this.

The way I browse win boxes beyond my network is really simple. If I am on my Linux box, I run a piece of software called Komba (available on Freshmeat.net) or use New World Scanner for my Windows PC. I can email a copy of it to you if you'd like.

Anyhow, if you had a bunch of friends and they were outside of your network, you can set up a WINS server on your Win2k or WinNT 4 Server and then tell your friends the IP address.