On Mon, 3 May 1999, Ken Marshall wrote:

> Here's my question.  There are two Windows 95 machines outside the firewall
> that are going to have to get to the files on the NT Server.  They have IP
> addresses of 12.34.56.78 and 79.  Is it possible to use port forwarding to
> access these files?  My idea was to put an entry in the LMHOSTS file that
> said that the 123.45.67.89 address was actually the NT Server.  Then, I
> could add rules that would look for the two source addresses that I am going
> to allow in, and forward those directly to my NT box @ 192.168.0.1.
> 
> Is this feasible?

Sure.

> Is it secure?

Hell no.

Use IPSec or PPTP to set up secure access for those clients.

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