> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> >
> > I am still trying to figure out Peter Boosten's suggestion that
> > it is possible to do it with just the Windows box. I don't have the
> > necessary to try it though.
> >
>
> Steve,
>
> Here's a network drawing of my situation:
>
> http://www.boosten.org/media/tunnel.png

OK that's a setup I would expect to work - and swapping out the work side Windows XP for a Samba server would make no real difference to this.

> In theory you could configure putty to connect your local rpc ports
> (137-139) to a machine in your central location. Your client then would
> make a connection with \\localhost.

Now that's the one I didn't think would work - not that I've tried it. If that works then it is probably a perfect solution for the OP. Eric give it a whirl and report back - then we'll all learn something :)

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