Shared hard drive over the net?

[statetech]

i wonder if anyone has ever run across a software product that
will create a virtual private drive across tcp/ip like a network drive
but over the net?

is this a VPN or something else?

 

[Burnt]

like an ftp server?

 

[statetech]

What I'm trying to achieve is similiar to a shared drive over a LAN.
Over a LAN, you can execute files on a shared drive as if the drive is a local one.

But the only difference is that I'm trying to achieve this via the Internet, not on a LAN.

 

[bot2600]

If they are both NT/2000 boxes you could just use the default share for the drive you want to connect to.

Bot

 

[n0cmonkey]

Sharing drives to the entire internet is less than safe. Look into setting up a vpn for whoever youw ant to allow access to your machine.

 

[neuralfx]

VPN is your only real option .. what operating systems are you wanting to use ..
-neural

 

[Techwhore]

While i'm backing VPN as well, i think it'd take a considerable amount of bandwidth to make this worth your while.

 

[Garion]

Actually, I seem to recall there's an FTP client out there that allows you to "map" an FTP server to a drive letter on your PC. You could setup a FTP server on your machine then install that client on the remote PC. It would look like a network share, but be a lot easier to configure. I found that FTP client on Tucows a while back, not sure of the name.

- G

 

[statetech]

I'm running win2k and it seems like VPN is the way to go.

 

[miguel]

You could setup FTP and use IE to "browse" the ftp shares...

 

[Garion]

I found that app that lets you map a drive letter to a FTP server - Check it out at Tucows..

- G