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

Unfortunately we do not have a "Network person" 

We only need a handful of users to be able to access our
iSeries remotely.

Thanks for the suggestions, I think I will look at what we
need to do to setup a VPN and see how it goes.

John


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Cunningham
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:08 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Attempting to map a drive from home to AS/400
IFS directory

If you have a network person on your staff I would think
they know about
this. You can turn a windows server into a VPN server or you
can buy a
"blackbox" that is dedicated to VPN. We got ours from CISCO.
There are
also firewalls that double as VPNs. There was no setup in
OS/400 for
these types of VPNs. OS/400 just sees it as any other local
traffic.
Google "vpn concentrator" to learn about these. What you do
will depend
on the number of users you see needed to use the VPN at one
time. If you
talking just a few you don't need much. If you talking
hundreds at one
time you're going to need something more expensive.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:00 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Attempting to map a drive from home to AS/400
IFS directory

I have never setup a VPN

Is this difficult?
Is there an easy to follow document explaining the setup
process?

John


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Cunningham
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:35 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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