Re: can't browse network accessed via VPN
From: Gary Roach (jgroach_at_NOSPAMcogeco.ca)
Date: 12/10/04
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:47:23 -0500
what you're telling me is consistent with what i've experienced. i've been
doing tests on a test LAN on which i've got a windows server 2003 server.
this is why i tried to use WINS - because i had the ability to easily
install it. ultimately, the LAN i'll be connecting to is workgroup of XP Pro
machines with no WINS server (unless the router happens to have that
capability - i don't know yet). in this environment i won't be able to
resolve netbios names at all for the dial-up clients unless i can somehow
maintain hosts or lmhosts files on the vpn client machines. the only way to
do it automatically would be to enable global broadcasts to the vpn clients.
i tried adding the 255.255.255.255 route to the routing table but "route"
gave me an error saying this address is invalid.
"Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
news:eRHtTun3EHA.1400@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> You can sometimes get an (incomplete) browse list when you first connect,
> but that is a fluke. When the browser settles down, it tells you
> (correctly) that it can't find the browse master.
>
> The remote clients will not appear in the LAN browse list. Browse lists
> are built by broadcasts, and these don't normally cross routers or WAN
> links.
>
> If you were using a site-to-site VPN, browsing would be possible
> because you would have a segment master browser at the remote site. But
> here again it only works with a domain. Only a PDC can merge browse lists
> to give you a network-wide list.
>
> "Gary Roach" <jgroach@NOSPAMcogeco.ca> wrote in message
> news:OYyc%23Nk3EHA.2288@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> it's a workgroup i'm trying to browse. interesting that since i posted, a
>> windows 98 VPN client produced a browse list. it included XP clients from
>> the local LAN and the server that runs the WINS server but not the XP
>> remote client that's also connected via a VPN. the XP client still gives
>> an error when i try to browse, but i can connect to shares on the LAN
>> using UNC with netbios names.
>>
>> "Michael Giorgio - MS MVP" <Michael.Giorgio@NoSpam.mayerson.com> wrote in
>> message news:OYG9cDg3EHA.3820@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>> If you don't have a domain in either location you will not be
>>> able to get this to work. You cannot browse remote workgroups
>>> without the presence of a DMB or domain master browser. The
>>> PDC or PDC emulator (W2k or higher) by default is always the
>>> DMB which is responsible for querying remote segments to get
>>> their local browse list.
>>>
>>> Having said all that if you have a domain in place attempt to map
>>> to a share from the remote location to the W2k3 server and vice
>>> versa. If the drive map fails post the exact error.
>>>
>>> "Gary Roach" <jgroach@NOSPAMcogeco.ca> wrote in message news:
>>>> I'm connecting to a network over a VPN. the VPN is hosted by a machine
>>>> running server 2003. it's also running a WINS server. the machine is a
>>>> stand-alone server. on the vpn client machine, i get the WINS address
>>> of the
>>>> WINS server correctly and i can ping internal machines using netbios
>>> names.
>>>> however, i cannot browse the network using the vpn client. when i
>>> click
>>>> "view workgroup computers", i get the error:
>>>>
>>>> workgroup is not accessible. you might not have permissions to use
>>> this
>>>> network resource.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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