Re: Odd VPN name resolution problem. Please...

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From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 07/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:06:23 -0500

"Lei Hu" <leihu@nojunk.com> wrote in message
news:40eaa4c5$0$24769$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> (1) The VPN server machine name *doesn't always* appear in "My Network
> Places". Probably 9 out of 10 times I cannot see the name. Sometimes, it
> does appear, and then some time later, it disappears.

Forget it. You're lucky you get that much. Net'Hood is based on Master
Browser's and Browse Lists. It is not the same as Netbios Naming and Netbios
Naming can work perfectly fine even if Net'Hood doesn't

> (2) I cannot access *other* boxes in the server side LAN by name. I can
ping
> them or map network drives using their IP addresses, but just cannot use
> their names. As mentioned in point (1), even though sometimes the machines

> Yes, I've enabled Netbios over IP option, and I even installed Netbeui,
but
> it doesn't help.

Get rid of Netbeui, it is irrelevant. It is not "Netbios", it is simply a
protocol that is Netbios compliant.

It requires WINS. You have to run a WINS Server. You can't run WINS without
a Server OS. You can cover for that with a LMHosts file on the client
machine. 

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

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