[windows2000] Re: Network share over the Internet

  • From: Chris Berry <chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:37:34 -0800

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Ray at home wrote:

| I have a W2K server at a remote location that I'm renting off a Web
hosting
| company.  This server is connected directly to the Internet without any
| firewall in front of it or anything.

Ahhhhh!!!! This is so bad!! Smack your hosting provider upside the head.

| I'm unable to map a drive to this computer over the Internet,

And you would want to do it this way why?  Use a VPN man, that's what
they're for.

| and I think I've come to the conclusion that
| it's because my home ISP (Comcast) is blocking ports 137-139 (are they the
| ones?).

Comcast sucks, but in this case they're saving you from yourself.
(However, win2k does all netbios stuff over port 445)

- --
Chris Berry
chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates & Coast Business Service

"He who laughs last probably made a back-up." --Murphy's Seventh law of
computing
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