Patent ID: 8688797

Claim:
A system for establishing a secure network among at least two computers over a public, wide area network, said system comprising: a first computer connectable to the wide area network through a first firewall element, said first firewall element adapted to protect said first computer from hostile intrusion from the wide area network; a second computer connectable to the wide area network through a second firewall element, said second firewall element adapted to protect said second computer from hostile intrusion from the wide area network; a third computer, accessible over the wide area network by said first and second computers via said first and second firewall elements respectively, said third computer comprising means for authenticating at least one of said second computer for connection to said first computer over the wide area network and said first computer for connection to said second computer over the wide area network; and means for integrating a file structure associated with said first computer into a file structure associated with said second computer, said file structure integrating means configured to integrate the file structure of accessible files accessed at said first computer, into the file structure contained at said second computer, wherein the accessible files are accessible from said first computer over said wide area network by implementation of the file structure at said second computer.