To: alt.windows98,microsoft.p

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:24:13 -0800, "Joel Kolstad"
wrote:

There is...

No there isn't.

you go through at least one (and probably dozens) of routers if
you're trying to access a drive over the Internet.

So what? He doesn't have to configure anything differently because of
this.

Although "the Internet at
large" will generally pass any TCP/IP traffic on any port, it's not at all
unusual that particular ISPs have some ports blocked

Well if Bellsouth block the netbios ports then I guess he's unlucky.
However, they probably don't.

or that, if the machine
in question is behind a NAT gateway, the NAT isn't configured to route the
appropriate ports to the appropriate machine on the LAN.

If that were the case he would probably already have a local network
and wouldn't be asking this question.

If he has equipment like that to traverse, it is simple enough to
configure and has no bearing at all on the fact that the configuration
of his pc to share files over the Internet is *exactly* the same as it
is sharing over a LAN.


Jim.

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