Mapping A Network Drive On My Home Network From Another Location

It doesn't quite work like that. You need a VPN connection, be it between the routers or between then computers, first, and then you will have the connectivity you want.

If you have control over the router at work, set up a GRE tunnel between the two routers and a static route pointing traffic to your home network to go through the tunnel (be careful you don't make it too general or you might send other traffic off to no-man's land). If you don't, then try to set up a PPTP VPN between the two PCs, with your home PC acting as the "server."

Once you have accomplished either of these, you will be able to access your home PC via its internal IP address to do whatever you want to do.

VPN I can handle as I have a Cisco 831 router at home and I can set it up on my office laptop as well. The problem is that I was never successful in configuring it when I was taking Cisco security classes in an accelerated fashion. We simply ran out of time.

Does anyone have a link to a well written procedure to configure it in the Cisco router?

I've looked all over my W2K Professional machine and I can't find anything to make it function as an NFS server.

A colleague of mine (who is a Microsoft Instructor) suggested I use remote desktop instead. It would only require forwarding port

However, an inspection of W2K did not reveal the means to enable it on my home PC. Something I read on the Internet suggested that W2K Professional did not support it.

So I guess I'll have to find third party clients to do this.

Any suggestions as to where I can find third party software to support NFS and/or Remote Desktop servers?

Regards,

Fred

=A0 =A0 Fred

the thread "Cisco 1760 router and VPN client Connection Issues " has a complete configuration for VPN server for a router.

You will need to install the Cisco VPN client on your office PC.

You could in theory:-

Cisco 1760 router and VPN client Connection Issues

ip nat inside source static tcp in.side.ip.add 445 out.side.ip.add

Also add ACLs to the outside interface to only allow your site to access.

You would want to be pretty sure about your windows security.

Or ip nat inside source static tcp in.side.ip.add 3389 out.side.ip.add

this is probably more secure.

You can of course connect local drives to the remote device over RDP. Just poke around the GUI.

=A0 =A0 Fred

W2K professional DOES do RDP server.