TCP/IP Packet Forwarding Through Shared Network Drive |
| Dan Luedtke posted at 09-May-08 03:06 |
I have what seems to me like a very unique challenge for any networking experts out there. Here is my problem: I have two computers at work. One is my office PC and the other is a remotely located work PC. The remote PC does not have internet access for security reasons. I can however access a mapped network drive from both PCs, so I can transfer files back and forth that way. What I would really like to do is use Remote Desktop to connect from the remote PC to my desk PC so I can access all my applications and email.
I am thinking that I could use the common mapped network drive to accomplish this. I am envisioning a "wrapper" to take the normal tcp/ip packets from Remote Desktop client and server and read/write them to files on the shared drive in order to pass them along. While researching this project I came across the following article, which led me to this forum.
It mentions forwarding packets from an XML file, which sounds like it could accomplish the effect I am looking for. I fear this might be painfully slow communication, however, to have the server and client read and write packets to files.
I also am thinking there might be a way to have the shared network server relay packets between the two PCs without having to write to file, though I'm not quite convinced that this is possible.
Thanks! |
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