General Networking Question
Hi there to everyone. I have a computer question I need help with. I am not super-technical with computers so forgive any of my ignorance. My question relates to networking and cable modems. I am running an application for my business from my computer. My business partner lives in another town and she would like to be able to access the software from her location. I checked with the software manufacturer and they said that the software supports this. They said that we can install the application on both machines and that the database will reside only on my machine (the host). Then, they said we need to establish a "network" between the two machines so that the remote machine can map a drive to my machine. My partner needs to map a drive to my computer so that when she logs in, she can point to the database located on my machine and us it for the application. She is actually running the application on her machine, but through a mapped drive she is pointing to a database on my computer. Obviuosly, I could use dial-up networking and have her dial up my machine and map a drive that way. This is not the desired option for a couple reasons. First, my computer is NOT running NT server right now. As I understand it, I would need to upgrade my machine to Windows NT Server before she could dial into mine. Second, the performance over the phone line would most likely be too slow and negate the benefit of networking the application. My question is how can we network our to machines together using our cable modems. We both access the internet via cable modems. Both our machines are running win2000 (millenium). Both of us have static ip addresses so I was hoping we could somehow use this to network them together. We can ping each others machine through DOS without any problem, so I know that the communication works. I would welcome any suggestions on how we can solve this problem. Once again, the goal is to be able to map a drive from my partners computer to mine so when she logs into the application on her machine, she can browse to my computer and select the database. Thanks in advance for your help. Please email me if you have any questions or solutions. Thanks!! Stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: General Networking Question
I'm sure there are several people on this board willing to do contract work for you. However, most cable modem providers require you (as a non commercial customer) to sign a contract stating you will not use the machine connected to their network as a server across their network. If you really want to be able to do this you need to contact your cable provider and get a commercial contract. You would be using more bandwidth than the normal customer and the cable company wants to be compensated. Stan Bowman wrote: > Hi there to everyone. I have a computer question I need help with. I am > not super-technical with computers so forgive any of my ignorance. My > question relates to networking and cable modems. I am running an > application for my business from my computer. My business partner lives in > another town and she would like to be able to access the software from her > location. I checked with the software manufacturer and they said that the > software supports this. They said that we can install the application on > both machines and that the database will reside only on my machine (the > host). Then, they said we need to establish a "network" between the two > machines so that the remote machine can map a drive to my machine. > > My partner needs to map a drive to my computer so that when she logs in, she > can point to the database located on my machine and us it for the > application. She is actually running the application on her machine, but > through a mapped drive she is pointing to a database on my computer. > > Obviuosly, I could use dial-up networking and have her dial up my machine > and map a drive that way. This is not the desired option for a couple > reasons. First, my computer is NOT running NT server right now. As I > understand it, I would need to upgrade my machine to Windows NT Server > before she could dial into mine. Second, the performance over the phone > line would most likely be too slow and negate the benefit of networking the > application. > > My question is how can we network our to machines together using our cable > modems. We both access the internet via cable modems. Both our machines > are running win2000 (millenium). Both of us have static ip addresses so I > was hoping we could somehow use this to network them together. We can ping > each others machine through DOS without any problem, so I know that the > communication works. > > I would welcome any suggestions on how we can solve this problem. Once > again, the goal is to be able to map a drive from my partners computer to > mine so when she logs into the application on her machine, she can browse to > my computer and select the database. > > Thanks in advance for your help. Please email me if you have any questions > or solutions. Thanks!! > > Stan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _ > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: General Networking Question
Your parnter can still use a dial up connection into your machine. If you want to support more than one connection you will need to upgrade to server but for one person the professional version is fine. (it has been a while and my memory if foggy, I think you can have up to ten connections into professional if it is the same as nt workstation) Just enter an ip address into the phone number section of dial up networking and it should "dial" in over the cable modem. This will also give you the added benefit of ppp. As for the previous remarks about not using your computer as a server, you will just have to check into that, but seeing as how you are working with someone and not running a business, ie charging people to host a web page on your computer I would think you should be fine with that as well. Not much different that using napster as I see it. ""Stan Bowman"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 01c09260$6cea8b40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:01c09260$6cea8b40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi there to everyone. I have a computer question I need help with. I am > not super-technical with computers so forgive any of my ignorance. My > question relates to networking and cable modems. I am running an > application for my business from my computer. My business partner lives in > another town and she would like to be able to access the software from her > location. I checked with the software manufacturer and they said that the > software supports this. They said that we can install the application on > both machines and that the database will reside only on my machine (the > host). Then, they said we need to establish a "network" between the two > machines so that the remote machine can map a drive to my machine. > > My partner needs to map a drive to my computer so that when she logs in, she > can point to the database located on my machine and us it for the > application. She is actually running the application on her machine, but > through a mapped drive she is pointing to a database on my computer. > > Obviuosly, I could use dial-up networking and have her dial up my machine > and map a drive that way. This is not the desired option for a couple > reasons. First, my computer is NOT running NT server right now. As I > understand it, I would need to upgrade my machine to Windows NT Server > before she could dial into mine. Second, the performance over the phone > line would most likely be too slow and negate the benefit of networking the > application. > > My question is how can we network our to machines together using our cable > modems. We both access the internet via cable modems. Both our machines > are running win2000 (millenium). Both of us have static ip addresses so I > was hoping we could somehow use this to network them together. We can ping > each others machine through DOS without any problem, so I know that the > communication works. > > I would welcome any suggestions on how we can solve this problem. Once > again, the goal is to be able to map a drive from my partner's computer to > mine so when she logs into the application on her machine, she can browse to > my computer and select the database. > > Thanks in advance for your help. Please email me if you have any questions > or solutions. Thanks!! > > Stan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _ > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
