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Trying to access home network from Work

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by loadmaster 1 view

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Hello!
At the risk of showing my inexperience with this, I have a question.
I've set up a W2K DSL Home Network and I want to access that Network (resources) from my work PC.
How do I do this? Do I need to publish my home network on the Internetwith a FQDN and all the trimmings or is there another, easier way?
I know about dial-up server in W98 but I have DSL.
Thanks!
Paul

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by gkeel

You shopuldn't have to publish your home network on the internet but you will need to have a lmhost or hosts file setup that will translate your home server's name to an ip address for your office computer to connect to. Also, I would hope that your home server is behind a firewall or at least a NAT router to protect it from just anyone using it or abusing it. If it is behind a router then you will need to ensure that you have a public ip address to connect to and that that address is being translated to the address of the server. If you are behind a firewall doing anything more than just NAT, you will also have to poke some holes in the firewall to allow traffic from the internet into your server.

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