[RESOLVED] Mapping ME drive from 2k server via internet

[KirkScott]

I have just gotten a new computer for home use. Unfortunately it runs ME and won't play well with my 2000 server...

I work on a Win2k server at work via Microsoft Terminal Server Client. Since my server doesn't have an office suite installed, I do all my spreadsheeting and word processing locally, and number crunching on the server. I have always had a map from the server to my home machine so I can save my work locally.

With my notebook (running Win2k now, previously Win98) I am easily able to map to the ip number and share. With WinME, the server cannot logon to the computer, and says that it is unable to find the network path. I know it is trying because I can see the lights on my firewall blinking. The firewall (ZoneAlarm) is configured to give full permissions to both the client and the ip address of the server, so it shouldn't be causing a problem.

The shares are set up right on ME (according to Microsoft's rather pathetic instructions and what I could glean from the ME boards).

The ME people tend to think this is a 2000 problem, so I hope someone here can help me.

My configuration:

PIII 866
128 mb
SMC EZ card 10/100
ADSL
WinME

Thanks,

Kirk Scott

[condor]

could you please specify how the shares are on the ME ?

as you probably know Windows 2000 works with user level security where as win9x and ME can work with share level or user level security.

to share a folder from ME to win2k you need to have the ME login to the domain and get the user names

or just share this folder with everyone permission and a password.




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[KirkScott]

Thanks for your reply. The shares are set at the resource level, with a simple password protect.

Last night I found out something odd... I work at a university, and the central computing department has set up an extremely simple VPN, which has the sole purpose of allowing those of us who work at home a lot to get a university ip number to use licensed services (like electronic journal subscriptions). If I map to the IP number given through the VPN it works, so the problem is partially solved.

I am still confused as to why the ip number I get from my ISP won't work. I can map to my notebook (win2k) using just the ISP ip...

Anyway, it seems like I have found a workaround, but if you have any theories on why one ip will work on a w2k notebook but not on ME I would love to hear them.

Thanks again,

Kirk

[kannibul]

this one falls under my dos printing fix with windows 2000 terminal services.

while logged into the termainl server - go to a dos prompt and try to ping your machine at home.
if that is good thne try 'net use (drive letter) \\machinename\sharename
if that fails then you need to make sure that
1. wins is on your network at work
2. the terminal server has a wins address in tcpip
if these are good, then check windows 2000 downloads this file

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...drmapsrv-o.asp

i havent tried it, so i dont kow if that will work yet.

btw - do you have the correct ports open on your firewall?? - if so - let me know what they are (my info is from an internal ISDN server thant we have that allows remote access through VPN)