I've set up a my server recently LINK and managed to hook it up to my home network, although I wanted to be more secure and did the following (I'm gonna ask one thing afterwards):
One room, 2 high performance PCs (Win7 Ultimate x64 & XP SP2 x86) , 1 entry level server (XP SP2 x86), 1 router with Internet access. All computers have 2 NICs, where the PCs have the first LAN port connected with the router for the Internet and the second LAN connection goes to the server, which has 2 NIC as mentioned above, for data storage access. All computers belong under one group : WORKGRUP by default. The PCs have a manual input of IPs for the connection with the server and thus the server has the IP input as well.
The initial purpose of not hooking up the server directly to the router, thus eliminating the additional usage of cabling and having direct connection to the outside world for purposes of remote accessibility anytime and anywhere was forged by these rules: 1. Security & Integrity (NO internet access for various reasons, NO LAN access for anyone except those 2 computers for reasons of sustaining the array at the top shape & security reasons), 2. Redundantly Protected Remote Accessibility (Established remote accessibility through Logmein to both PCs, which have enabled Remote Desktop Access by the OS to the server - redundant firewall usage). 3. Sufficient Performance Utilization (Not sharing one single connection for two PC since the server has only 100Mbit NICs, thus preferring two separate 12MB/s connections for each machine - lesser pain).
This is just a brief description of the whole setup and it works great! And here comes the question: First I thought when I use the same workgroup names for every machine I physically interconnect, I would see them on the LAN. Yes, I see every machine ONLY from the 2 PCs, not from the server or any other outside computer, notebooks for instance - How do I enable seeing the files on my server through the two PCs for outside devices, meaning laptops and other computers? I suppose it has to do with the Internet connectivity sharing withing the windows network settings, could you guys give some advice? Can't reach my PCs for now, so I wasn't able to figure it out myself yet.
One room, 2 high performance PCs (Win7 Ultimate x64 & XP SP2 x86) , 1 entry level server (XP SP2 x86), 1 router with Internet access. All computers have 2 NICs, where the PCs have the first LAN port connected with the router for the Internet and the second LAN connection goes to the server, which has 2 NIC as mentioned above, for data storage access. All computers belong under one group : WORKGRUP by default. The PCs have a manual input of IPs for the connection with the server and thus the server has the IP input as well.
The initial purpose of not hooking up the server directly to the router, thus eliminating the additional usage of cabling and having direct connection to the outside world for purposes of remote accessibility anytime and anywhere was forged by these rules: 1. Security & Integrity (NO internet access for various reasons, NO LAN access for anyone except those 2 computers for reasons of sustaining the array at the top shape & security reasons), 2. Redundantly Protected Remote Accessibility (Established remote accessibility through Logmein to both PCs, which have enabled Remote Desktop Access by the OS to the server - redundant firewall usage). 3. Sufficient Performance Utilization (Not sharing one single connection for two PC since the server has only 100Mbit NICs, thus preferring two separate 12MB/s connections for each machine - lesser pain).
This is just a brief description of the whole setup and it works great! And here comes the question: First I thought when I use the same workgroup names for every machine I physically interconnect, I would see them on the LAN. Yes, I see every machine ONLY from the 2 PCs, not from the server or any other outside computer, notebooks for instance - How do I enable seeing the files on my server through the two PCs for outside devices, meaning laptops and other computers? I suppose it has to do with the Internet connectivity sharing withing the windows network settings, could you guys give some advice? Can't reach my PCs for now, so I wasn't able to figure it out myself yet.
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