Enabling outside access to my LAN

Dear all,

I have sent a post earlier regarding this but it mysteriously
disappeared!! From the server, can't even search it on Google.

Anyway here it goes again:

I have setup Samba shares for my work mates on a local machine on my
network. The network shares a broadband connection using the ST510 router.
I want to allow outside traffic to enter my network and access the machine
where I am serving the samba shares and the web server.

I have a static IP address assigned to me by my ISP. My friends from their
machines at home can not even ping that IP address. Does that mean that
there is a firewall there? From the web interface of the router I can not
see any references to the firewall settings.

Also what do I need to do to allow outside traffic to go to machine x to a
specific port. (naturally the port that serves samba in this case), there
is NAPT settings there which are mentioned in the manual too, are they
relevant to this issue?

As I have never attempted this before I have absolutely no clue as to what
needs to be done here.

My network looks like this:

Router: Static IP from ISP: xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Router for eth0 IP address: 10.0.0.138
Machine X (where samba shares are): 10.0.0.1

Could anyone please guide me through this and help me setup my router so
my work mates outside can access the shared directory on 10.0.0.1?

Regards
Yousaf
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Linux tom 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:18:24 EST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Sorry, I found my previous post, please ignore this one.
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Yousaf
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gcc version 3.2.2
Red Hat 9

Yousaf wrote:

> As I have never attempted this before I have absolutely no clue as to what
> needs to be done here.
>

Use a VPN to allow access. Do not make the file shares available directly
to the internet.

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