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19 November 2003, 11:18 AM
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I have succesfully made a VPN connection to th eoffice LAN from my broadband connection at home. This is a w2k PC sitting behind a netgear router. I can ping the office LAN machines, connect to the webmail feature of our email server but I can't 'see' any network shares. How do I sort this?
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19 November 2003, 12:37 PM
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In the process of replying to your mail Mark, but this is usually name resolution related.
In the Address Bar of your PC, type \\x.x.x.x where the IP is the address of a server or PC.
If that works (should see the shares from that machine) then you can put enteries into the LMHOSTS file to resolve that IP to the correct name. There is a better solution - do you have a WINS server in house?
In the Address Bar of your PC, type \\x.x.x.x where the IP is the address of a server or PC.
If that works (should see the shares from that machine) then you can put enteries into the LMHOSTS file to resolve that IP to the correct name. There is a better solution - do you have a WINS server in house?
19 November 2003, 12:54 PM
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Open up a command prompt start - run type cmd press enter. Type ipconfig /all you will see if you have a DNS or WINS server set up. If not speak to your network administrator for the name, these will resolve your network names. Do you usually have a logon script run in the office that maps these for you? If it didnt run in the house when you loged on why not? Is it the same machine? Might be a problem with the MDAC, get the latest one from microsoft's site. You could also go for the HOSTS and LMHOST files.
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Thanks for the replies, guys. I'll get back to this later as Demon's ADSL service is up and down like a *****'s drawers [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
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In case anyone else has encountered this I could only get an XP'd lappy to VPN using L2TP over IPSec to work if I removed the QoS Packet Scheduler component. Seems to be a well known issue with the Vigor 2600.
Incidentally, this lappy won't connect using IPSec from behind my router at home. I presume I need to forward ports. Anyone know which ones?
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Incidentally, this lappy won't connect using IPSec from behind my router at home. I presume I need to forward ports. Anyone know which ones?
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