>here is the scenario..
>My neighbor and I are both using @home service and he has no firewall and
>I have his computer name and workgroup and IP address. When i search
>for that computer name on network it doesn't find it.
>I can ping the IP address no problem with quick reply.
>
>Ronnie

There's no way that your computer will be able to resolve the name over the internet... you should however be able to use the IP adress as suggested.

You can place an entry in your hosts file and tell it the name and ip address to be able to use it if you want.