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I had a buddy who worked in customer service for an earlY ISP, and his co-workers were shocked that he could print to the Windows NT print server at work from the dial up internet connection he used at home.

Broadcast name resolution couldn't work over his dial up internet connection, but you could still manually set up an LMHosts file on his home Win95 box.




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