VPN or what?

[maceo]

I'm going to be straight forward and plain in explaining this.
I want access to a shared folder on "ComputerB" which is 50 miles away from my "ComputerA."

I'll need to get through a router (linksys befw<something>)

What's the best way to do this.

I know I know there are 1000 answers. FTP and all that blah blah blah but no.

I've tried to set up an FTP server on this machine twice already ServeU and one other program i cant remember. I mapped the route to the comp and everything like it told me. I opened tcp udp ports with the port numbers provided by the prog mapped to the static IP of the comp I wanted to be the server. I couldn't see it remotely (INTRAnet fine any comp on that network could see the ftp server) I checked the routers client table and the IP i had specified was the comp i wanted to use... AHHHHHH32p8rb... ya know?!

Maybe it has something to do with ComputerA (mine) running Win2K and ComputerB (remote) running XPpro?

shit i don't know ... so question ... how should I do this?!

 

[Malk-a-mite]

Honestly - of the options VPN or FTP, FTP is the much easier to setup.

Edit: I think you'd be better off figuring out why the FTP server isn't connecting rather than jumping to another option. It might be a firewall permission issue, or a port forwarding, or any number of other problems not directly related to the method of file sharing.

 

[maceo]

any more ideas?!
I mean how could i make the remote computer appear in "my network places"
that would be rad. I could figure this out with minimal explination. please help.

 

[[wizard]]

VPN takes lots of explination. it's a pain to get setup and a pain to keep running smoothly.

i would instal the adminpak on both machines. (you can download adminpak from microsoft.com) and use IIS FTP to seutp your ftp. it's very simple and straight foward with users and what not. jsut foward ports 21 and 22 to the server. then you can simply open your favorite internet browser and bookmark the server's ip. done, and done.

 

[maceo]

Thanks.
I downloaded adminpak.msi (for XP.)

They didn't have a download for Win2K. They told me to go to the /i386/ folder on my Win2000<Server/Advanced Server/Datacenter> CD and install it from there.
It's NOT included on the Win2KPro CD. I THINK (if i understood that confusing mess corectly) it's included in a sevice pack but I'm not going to install it.
The file from the server CDs runs on win2kpro. I guess they want someone trying to run a service from win2kpro to go out and buy advanced server.
Last time I checked it was like $500 !!! THOSE BASTARDS !!! OF COURSE people are trying to DL that shit! <?mircne1?>

But anyway...
I guess I'm good to go now... the server is XP so it's straight. I would have liked to have it for myself though (probably just to play around with.)
anyone have?!

Thanks for your help.

<still open to more ideas/help>

 

[JonR800]

Well... SFTP (part of the SSH package) is better at getting through firewalls. You could probably install Cygwin and setup an SFTP server.

http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html

 

[LonerVamp]

You really need to use a VPN to get a remote computer into your Network Places, so to speak. You need to be on the same network as the other computer, and you really can't do that without being logically (in terms of networking) close to each other. A VPN "fools" the rest of the routers in between you and the remote machine becauses of the encryption work that is done.

As someone said, you're probably better troubleshooting the FTP server. Make sure XP (if you're using it) has the firewall turned off, and make sure the router in front of the FTP server is port forwarding port 21 (FTP) into your FTP server box.

If you get that working, considering upgrading to an SFTP solution like, something that support SCP or SFTP protocols. They've much more secure than FTP is.