I've asked this before i think, but I never got a real response.

My situation:

I have a computer set up on a small home network, using windows 2000 server edition, on a cross-over connection (no routers involved)

It is connected, and my servers are running, but how would a remote computer not on my network, be able to connect to the computer i am running the server on?

How would i obtain the ip address and such? I know there are different ways of doing this than to do routing crap, any ideas?

tell your friend to goto http://yourip:81 (if that's your web server port)

So what I understand is that you want people outside to be able to connect to the computer on the other side of a gateway computer?

As far as I know, there's no way. You can look into the software called WinProxy, I've never used it, though. If your gateway is using linux, I hear it's as easy as editing a config file.

I'd recommend getting a router, though.. they aren't that expensive, and they provide extra security, and connection forwarding, etc.

He could just use Routing and Remote Access to do that, since he already has Windows 2000 Server...

I was looking around today in the remote access and such, but i still dont know what the domain would be for the public to reach that computer...

Well, you probably don't have a domain. You get the services for dynamic IPs from most domain registration companies, or possibly like DNS2Go or a similar service. Until then you just have to use your ip address. If you can't figure how to get your IP Address then well... =\. Do I even need to say search google or look any of a hundred places on your computer. -.-

Hostile, here is the situation. I am on the main computer right now, running windows xp pro, this is the computer that receives the internet from the modem. Now, using a crossover cable, i have the internet going from this computer, to my windows 2000 computer. Therefore, the windows 2000 server appears to have the ip address: 192.168.0.75, but as u know, that is just a local address, so on my main computer, if i do http://192.168.0.75:78, it opens the website up fine, because it is on my network. But, how would i access the computer outside of my network?

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Hostile, here is the situation. I am on the main computer right now, running windows xp pro, this is the computer that receives the internet from the modem. Now, using a crossover cable, i have the internet going from this computer, to my windows 2000 computer. Therefore, the windows 2000 server appears to have the ip address: 192.168.0.75, but as u know, that is just a local address, so on my main computer, if i do http://192.168.0.75:78, it opens the website up fine, because it is on my network. But, how would i access the computer outside of my network?[/quote]

Connect to a chosen port on the public address of your gateway system; the gateway system must be configured to forward that port on to the internal system. Configuring port forwarding is a very proxy-specific process, and I have no experience with using Win* for ICS.