nickzat

I'm sure this question has been asked a million times, although I did a search and couldn't find anything specific to my needs. It's possible too, that I just don't know enough of the terminology to do a good search. Referring to the attached diagram, I would like to use an SSH client such as Putty or WinSCP, running on WindowsPC2 which is on LAN-2, to connect to a Linux PC (LinuxPC1) on another LAN (LAN-1). I do have a Windows PC (WindowsPC1) that connects to both LANs. Can I use something like FreeProxy on WindowsPC1 to accomplish this? If so, what settings to use for both FreeProxy and Putty/WinSCP? Thank you. PS: LinuxPC1 has a non-routable IP, ie, is not visible from the Internet.

Thanks for everyone's help. It's a shame that I have to have all the overhead of Windows Server 2003 just for clean, organized network shares. But, I did find this: http://win2k3.msfn.org/ Thanks msfn.org! -- Sorry, I didn't understand this statement to be exclusive.

Great thanks cluberti! This does answer my questions. This will work for me, but I'd rather run it under Vista (I'm setting up a new main computer as we speak). Does anyone know if Vista Enterprise or Vista Ultimate can serve DFS (or what ever it's called in Vista, MS loves to rename things, just to confuse everyone)?

First off, I do have a lot of experience with computers, but I'm not an IT pro, so please forgive my ignorance. I have several computers networked at home. My problem is that I have too many networked drives on each computer. In addition, each computer may have different drives letters for each network share (I know I can change them, but it wasn't always possible to free other letters). I would like to be able to map the network shares to, instead of a drive, to a folder. I understand that there is a mechanism for this, Distributed File System (DFS). I tried to research this to answer my questions, but couldn't find anything. Below is an example of what I would like to do: D:\Network Shares ___\Videos _____\MediaComputer (which is mapped to \\MediaComputer\Video) _____\DenHTPC (which is mapped to \\DenHTPC\Video) __\Music _____\MediaComputer (which is mapped to \\MediaComputer\Music) _____\FileServer (which is mapped to \\FileSever\Music) My questions: 1) Will DFS do as I described above? 2) Do I need Windows XP Server 2003, for this, or is there a way with just Windows XP Pro? 3) Does Vista Enterprise/Ultimate have DFS, or is it renamed to something else? 4) What about the client Windows XP machines, will they have the ability to map network shares as folders too? 5) Will it truly act like just any other folder, so it will be accessed in any application? Thank you.