RE: Attempting to map a drive from home to AS/400 IFS directory

Could be your firewall is blocking the port needed to do windows drive
mapping. This could be a dangerous thing to do. I would not recommend
you open that port at your firewall. It would be better to setup a VPN
connection to your internal network which would give your home PC an ip
address behind the firewall and should work exactly the same as an PC on
your internal network. 

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:09 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Attempting to map a drive from home to AS/400 IFS directory

I have Client Access loaded on my PC's at home and I can
start a 5250 session connecting to our iSeries at the
office.

(I obviously use an external IP address that points to our
iSeries)

 

I would like to map a drive on my home PC to a directory in
the IFS on our iSeries

I map the drive using the same method I use in the office
except I use the external IP address for the iSeries 

This external IP address is the same IP address I use to
start my 5250 session from my home PC's

 

Example: \\external <file:///\\external>  IP Address for
iSeries\Share name for the IFS directory

Example: \\74.999.999.999\acct

 

On my PC A at home it just keeps prompting me for my user id
and password

 

On another PC B I get a windows message box:

"The network path \\74.999.999.999\acct <file:///\\external>
could not be found"

 

I am using Windows XP Professional

I do not use a windows password 

When mapping the drive I click on the "Connect using a
different user name" and when prompted I enter my iSeries
user Id and password

I have checked to make sure my iSeries user profile is not
disabled 

I can start a 5250 session on both PC's using Client Access

 

Just for kicks I did try to map a drive on my PC at the
office using this external IP address and it worked fine

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance 

 

John