I need to see if either of these are possible. Is it possible for a internet user to connect to my local lan so my computer sees the internet user as a LAN user through TCP/IP. Or is it possible for my computer to forward all local requests for a LAN IP (i.e. 192.168.0.1) to a internet ip? I need to know how to do this on a windows platform. ANy information is appreciated, feel free to email me at weirdaljr@hotmail.com or post replys here.

External users can connect to your LAN via a VPN if you wish to create one. It is possible for your LAN requests to be forwarded to a DNS server on the internet. You would have to set up an internal DNS server and have it forward external requests.

Definately a candidate for VPN. The second one wont work. If you transmitt a private IP address (192.168.x.x) to an internet DNS it will not be processed, or processed and sent to "never never land". They will only process PUBLIC IP addresses. D

If done with a VPN, will there local ip address be there internet ip address or a local address on my lan? Thanks for info guys, keep it comming =). -Al

I was too brief in my previous post. D is correct, the private Class C IP address 192.168.0.0 can't be used on the internet. However, if you are using that on your LAN, you can setup RRAS/NAT on a 2000 server and DNS as well. Then setup the forwarding. It'll all work. With RRAS/NAT enabled your private IP won't ever reach the internet. NAT will translate and send outbound requests via DNS with the IP address of your internet connection.

Curt, Don't I want the local address to reach the internet? You said the private IP wont ever reach the internet, but I want it to. I want someone on the internet to look like 192.168.x.x, or 192.168.x.x to be forwarded to someones IP. AL

That's where NAT comes it. It translates your private IP to a public IP (either one-to-one or many-to-one - a.k.a. PAT). You computer with the private IP will send it's requests to the router, the router will translate the private IP to a public IP, which will go get what you want, then return to the router, which will know how to get the info back to the computer that requested it. Wow, that was a long sentence...sorry, too much Fosters. Damn those aussies...