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| Thread ID: 107618 | 2010-02-23 23:49:00 | Map 'Remote' Network Drive over Internet | babip (14282) | Press F1 |
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| 861094 | 2010-02-23 23:49:00 | I am at my office and get in to my home machine via Remote Desktop - no problems. How do I Map my home computer drive (eg: DVD Drive or Shared Folder) in to my office computer ? |
babip (14282) | ||
| 861095 | 2010-02-24 00:18:00 | That would not be very secure. I would recommend if you do try it you do it over a VPN. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 861096 | 2010-02-24 00:24:00 | Just about to say that :lol: you are safer off setting up a VPN first, then mapping Via that. Whats the OS ?? Windows 7 has a easy wizard to work through VPN setting up. This site (compnetworking.about.com) has a lot of articles on setting one up. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 861097 | 2010-02-24 00:28:00 | Is it relatively simple to setup ?I have not done it in past ? | babip (14282) | ||
| 861098 | 2010-02-24 00:28:00 | you will also need to forward a port to your computer but im not sure which one, but some one else here must. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 861099 | 2010-02-24 00:31:00 | You will need to forward port 1723 as well as the GRE protocol to whichever device is the VPN endpoint, assuming you will use PPTP. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 861100 | 2010-02-24 00:33:00 | will babip also need to forward the port for file sharing to his computer? | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 861101 | 2010-02-24 00:37:00 | You will need to forward port 1723 as well as the GRE protocol to whichever device is the VPN endpoint, assuming you will use PPTP. Means I open the port 1723 and forward it my computer ip address ? eg: PPTP 1723 -- > 192.168.1.xxx ? |
babip (14282) | ||
| 861102 | 2010-02-24 00:40:00 | will babip also need to forward the port for file sharing to his computer? No. Means I open the port 1723 and forward it my computer ip address ? eg: PPTP 1723 -- > 192.168.1.xxx ? Correct, assuming your computer is receiving the incoming VPN connection. You must also allow PPTP passthrough, or PPTP forwarding, or whatever terminology your router uses to mean "Let VPNs work". |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 861103 | 2010-02-24 00:40:00 | yeah. Make sure you give your computer a static ip address or the forwarding will not work, (forgot about that myself for my first forwarding). You will also need to set up something like Dynamic DNS if you dont have a static public ip address. |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
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