Re: Sharing Directories and Printers over a VPN Connection

Ed,

With having multiple subnets in an SBS environment something you'll want to
look at is the group policy that SBS sets to enable the firewall on XP SP2
machines.. Check under Start/Administrative Tools/Group Policy
Management/Forest/Domains/yourdomainname/Group Policy Objects/Small Business
Server Windows Firewall and right click and select Edit. Then under
Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/Network
Connections/Windows Firewall/Domain Profile. Check out the different
settings that are enabled and some of which will be set to just localsubnet.
For example, the Allow remote administration exception and Allow file and
printer sharing exception. If you add in the needed subnets, and then run
gpupdate /force on the client machines (assuming that they are XP SP2) can
you then see the shares/printers on the remote machines?


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Hope that helps,
David Copeland
Microsoft Small Business Server Support

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"Ed Faranda" <EdFaranda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E48A9B5F-974A-4FC6-BEAC-9FFB3A130675@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a VPN Router network setup with 6 different locations.
>
> I used LinkSys VPN routers to connect to my SBS2003 Server and everything
> works great!
>
> The Server internal IP address is as follows:
>
> 192.168.1.x
>
> Then each location has the following subnets
>
> 192.168.2.x
> 192.168.3.x
> 192.168.4.x
> 192.168.5.x
> 192.178.6.x
>
> The routers connect fine and everything seems to be working great. I am
> able to get Email, CompanyWeb, and Shared Drives on the Server.
>
> My problem is that on each Subnet, I have one to three computers that I
> want
> to be able to access a shared directory on from the server, or from any
> one
> of the networked computers.
>
> When I go into My Network Places, I am unable to see the shared directory
> or
> printers.
>
> I did the obvious and enabled sharing and granted access to Domain Users.
> But, I still can't access it. Could someone possible let me know what
> else
> or what I am doing wrong.
>
> Any kind of help would be GREAT!
>


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