Thanks Todd, The static IP address does the trick. On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 07:53 PM, Todd Lee wrote: > If the windows box is external to the network, (I think you mentioned > this) how is it routed there? VPN? If so NetBIOS won't work. try > mapping to the IP instead. > > net use x: \\1.2.3.4\sharename