On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:55:37 +0000, mikeybates wrote:

> We have 2 PCs connected to the internet through routers. The internet
> connections both have static IPs. We want to connect the 2 machines so
> they can share files as though they were on the same network, but we
> don't want to use a VPN.
>
> Security is not an issue here.
>
> We've tried to use NAT to redirect the NetBIOS ports to the respective
> machines and added an LMHOSTS entry but whenever we try and connect we
> get this message
> "\\name is not accessible.
>
> The specified server cannot perform the requested operation."
>
> I'm assuming this is because we need to redirect some other ports as
> well as 137, 138, 139 and 445.
>
> Does anyone know what else we need to do?

Should work. Download wireshark and loop at the packets going on the wire
to see what goes wrong.

HTH,
M4