Networking Long Distance

[mcneely]

Okay

I'll try to get this right on the first go.........

What I have are 3 Windows XP Operating Systems

Each has SP2

One is located in Montana, the other in Kansas, while still the other is in Illinois

Now

I've mastered the networking of 4 of our local machines here in the office

Works great.

But, here is what I've got

The Illinois machine is running from behind a router, because of multiple machines at that location. The Illinois machine is running on a cable modem so ethernet isn't a prob. -- Cannot connect from there to here, even with the right configured address. Do you think that the router has anything to do with this?

Do I have to write in both the generic IP address for the router and the machine IP or could I just put the local machine in and leave the router out?

Next

The next machine is in Kansas

Runs the same XP SP2 but this one is on the DSL

Would we expect any potential probs here as far as this machine being able to access our machines?

Note:

All of our security protocols have been written to reflect this networking activity.

Any suggestion?

[tacticus85]

right you may need to forward ports on the routers at both the cable site and the dsl site so that they go to the correct machine

you do need the address for the router and you should be able to use the router to forward the port to the correct machine at the other end