A method for accessing a home-network in which a home network system linked
to a home-gateway that is accessed in relation to a home-portal service,
and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method for accessing to a
home-network, in a network access method of a network system wherein an
open Internet Protocol (IP) address is used for an external network and a
private IP address is provided for an internal network resource, the
method for accessing to the home-network has the steps of (a) collecting
user information and an open IP address from the network system; (b)
authenticating an authorized user, who wants to access an internal network
resource, based on the user information and open IP address collected in
the step (a); and (c) providing the open IP address to the user
authenticated in the step (b) so that a virtual network between the
authenticated user and the internal network resource that the user wants
to use is built.
