Back to My Mac and remote servers?

Hello --
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to connect to servers mounted on my Mac at work while accessing it from home via Back to My Mac. I don't control port mapping on the router at work, which apparently doesn't support UPnP or NAT-PMP. But I am able to connect to either machine from either location.
When I connect to the work Mac, though, I'm only able to see the local hard drive, not servers mounted on that computer. Is there any way to extend the connection to the rest of the network? I can also use LogMeIn Hamachi, but I run into the same issue there.
Any advice is welcome. Thanks.

well I know when I had back to my mac, I could ssh into a computer using the address format computerName.userName.members.mac.com. So if my mobileme name was [email protected] and the computer's name in sharing was imac. the address would be imac.bob.members.mac.com. If you have ARD I could be worth a shot, see if it works.
What's are you missing with back to my mac? copy/paste? terminal? Remote install?

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