Network Neighborhood omn VPN Client

[Tina Bird]

Hi Marcel --

How do your client PCs do name resolution?  If they
use WINS in order to translate between server names
and IP addresses, you have to be sure that they
can contact the private WINS server over the VPN.
Some VPN packages -- like VTCP/Secure from
InfoExpress -- specifically proxy that information
through the VPN, so they work pretty easily.

In a lot of cases, though, you have to configure
the LMHOSTS file on the remote PC with the IP
addresses of the servers to be contacted over the
VPN.  This is really only practical in small,
relatively static networks.

In any event -- to determine whether or not this
is your problem -- can you map network drives
by IP address?  If that works, but mapping by name
fails, then you've definitely got a name resolution
issue.  If that >doesn't< work, I'd check the
routing.

Cheers -- Tina

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Marcel van den Hoven wrote:

> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 15:59:09 +0100
> From: Marcel van den Hoven <Hoven at Q-RAY.NL>
> To: VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
> Subject: Network Neighborhood omn VPN Client
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> For users we like to have a VPN server so that people at home can connect to
> te office by Internet. We use different clients (Win9x/NT)
> When I browse by network neighborhood I don't our servers at the office. At
> the office all server are NT 4.0. The VPN Server is also a NT.
> Connecting and a ping to a server at the office is working fine, but you
> have to know the server and share name to connect.
> Who can help me to solf this challenge.
>
>
> Marcel van den Hoven
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