Back to my Mac through Windows Small Business Server 2003

I have been able to use Back to my Mac from my work to access by home Mac. I have an airport extreme base station at my home. At work, I have Windows Small Business Server 2003 functioning as the firewall, DHCP router, basically everything. I cannot access my Mac at work from home. I figure something needs to be opened up in the Windows SBS box, but I can't figure what I need to do nor how to do it. Any ideas?

You don't need to do anything special on the SBS 2003. Simply create shares on the folders you want to access. Then on your Mac use the Network icon which will search your network for any shares (this is similar to the My Network Places in Windows). Once your Mac OS discovers the share and you double click on it, if you have any type of security (NTFS) permissions, Mac OS will prompt you to enter a username/password/domain and the ability to save the credentials.

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