Re: Browse through router provided VPN?

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:26:23 -0500

Browsing between subnets can be a PITA. If you take the LMHOSTS file out of
the picture temporarily (and either reboot or run nbtstat -R to reload), can
you still ping
a computer on the remote network by name? That will tell you whether the
NetBIOS
traffic is actually being passed through the connection, as the name
resolution will have to be performed by broadcast.

If you have servers running WINS, this can be made a lot easier....

marty@partshelf.com wrote:
> Home has a cable modem, D-Link DI-804HV VPN firewall
> router, and a network starting at 192.168.0.1. Office has
> a T1 with a static IP, same router, network starting at
> 192.168.1.1. XP Pro machines at both ends. I want to be
> able to browse the machine at work from home, and map a
> drive.
>
> The routers can apparently provide an encrypted VPN
> tunnel. I configured a tunnel from firewall to firewall,
> including encryption settings. NetBIOS broadcast is
> enabled at both ends, although the router instructions
> don't say anything about the feature. The routers also
> have configuration pages for setting up PPTP Server
> settings and L2TP Server settings. I am assuming that
> these would be required if I only had this router at one
> end, and the XP box was originating a VPN and doing the
> encryption, am I on target here? I'm assuming that if the
> firewalls are providing an encrypted bridge between the
> sub-networks, then the XP boxes don't need to set up their
> own VPN?
>
> Now, so far, I can ping machines at the opposite end. I
> cannot see them when I browse. At the home end, I set up
> an LMHOSTS file. Now I can ping the machine at the shop
> using the machine name. I still cannot browse. The
> computers on the two segments have different workgroup
> names. The opposite workgroup does not appear when I
> browse.
>
> What am I missing? What is required to browse beyond the
> ability to ping by machine name? Which protocol? Is
> NetBIOS required in XP? How do I troubleshoot this?
> Anybody got a good URL to a help resource on this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marty Hewes

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