On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:52:17 -0500, Daniel Wood <dwood at somd dot lib dot md dot us> wrote:
> Can someone assist newbie with hopefully a simple problem? I want my LAN
> computers with DHCP assigned addresses 10.1.0.0/24 to be able to browse
> and connect to other computers on the WAN subnet so that I can share
> files. I can connect to any  of these computers by mapping to a shared
> folder if I type in the IP address and share name of the folder, but
> cannot browse and see them.
> 

You need DNS if you have all Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 machines.  You
need WINS if you have any Win 95/98/ME/NT4 machines.  And there's more
to it than that.

This is a decent article on it. 
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/wins/winsinfo/index.xml.ID=What

This one looks ok too, at a glance.  
http://wown.com/j_helmig/nethood.htm

And an older KB article.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q149941/

-Chris