If you have fixed IP addresses on both Pcs or are willing to modify the lmhosts file each time they change you could open the firewall for ports 135 -137 UDP and TCP. this would allow netbios comms between your PCs. however it is not really secure and you would need to have access to the firewall(s) inbetween. A better idea would be to use VPN, but one of the machines needs to be running NT or win2000 as 98 has only the VPN client as far as i am aware. there are other VPNish solutions that you could use though, such as winroute (from www.tinysoftware.com) or wingate. both of these allow encrypted connections between PCs. The disadvantage is more software to gonfigure and maintain, the advantage is they will dynamically maintain the IP (I think) possibly your easiest option would be to run aN FTP server on one or both the PCs in question and use windows explorer to look at the remote PCs IP address. be sure to set Usernames and Passwords or anyone can wander in to your files. in the remote PC (relative to the other PC) just use the address "ftp://Username:Password@remoteIP" that should allow Explorer to "browse" the remote PC and display the files as a "normal" window.

PeterH
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