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by ufs00083

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I have the following:
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1 LinkSys DSL/Cable modem router
1 Win2k Server
3 Win98

Recently I have set up a home network. All these PCs are linked togather and connected to the internet with a Linksys DSL/Cable modem router. Iuse AT&T cable modem service.
All PCs are using internal IP address.

My question is :
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Scenenario 1:
Suppose I have a remote PC in my office and I want to use the resources from my PC at home.I am able to map a drive at a remotestation with my Win2k server (ADS installed). The command line I used is "net use y: \\209.223.12.120\shared /user:dummyguy" instead of using NetBIOS name. FYI I can "ping remotePC" and return me the ip address as 209.223.12.120. WINS is installed and LMHOSTS in WIn2K. How can I map the drive using NetBIOS name?

Scenenario 2:

For the rest Win98 machine, I cannot even map the remote share drive. Neither "net use y: \\209.223.12.120\shared /user:dummyguy" nor "net use y: \\remotePC\shared /user:dummyguy" will work in Win98 environment. All the Win98 machine logs on into Win2k domain. For one thing I can ping the remotePC with NetBIOS name.
How can I solve this problem?

Thanks

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by soleblazer

Not sure how much this is gonna help, but I will try.

I am surprised that any mapping will work. Are you using NAT on your linksys or do you have multiple ip's? It would seem that there is some sort of netbios going thru your firewall from your work pc. Are these ports open for inbound traffic:

netbios-ns 137/tcp NETBIOS NameService
netbios-ns 137/udp NETBIOS Name Service
netbios-dgm 138/tcp NETBIOS Datagram Service
netbios-dgm 138/udp NETBIOS Datagram Service
netbios-ssn 139/tcp NETBIOS Session Service
netbios-ssn 139/udp NETBIOS Session Service

You could do a port scan at work for your ip address and see what is open, my cable provider locks everything down, no ports open, so your lucky.

by parbo

SCEN 1
I'm not sure if you would be able to use static mappings in an LMHOST file. The other way of using netbios names is by having a WINS server that can resolve those names, but you would have to be on the same network as your home network for that, I think.

Scen 2 Might have to do with the different ways networking works in those OS's.

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