Re: File sharing from a remote site

David,

Is the home machine a member of the SBS domain? Is it an XP Pro machine?
If so,when 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 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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"David L. Leon" <news@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have SBS2003 at work. At work there is a hardware VPN router (ASANTE
>FriendlyNet) that connects to a remote site that has the same router. The
>VPN works fine, as I can ping to each side. Also, the Mac OS computers on
>either side of the network can "see" each other.
>
> Anyway, the network looks like this:
>
> Work:
>
> SBS Server (10.0.1.50)
>
> Client 1 (10.0.1.10)
>
> VPN Router (10.0.1.100)
>
> !
> !
> !
>
> VPN Router (10.0.0.100)
>
> Client (10.0.0.2) I have enabled file sharing on a folder C:\remotebackup,
> allowing all users access to read/write
>
>
> I have the DNS Server at the home computer set to 10.0.1.50 (SBS Server)
> and I can surf, mount the server's remote hard drives, etc. I can log on
> to the domain without issue. The problem is that I want to share the home
> computer's hard drive, so that a computer at work (Client 1, 10.0.1.10)
> can access it. (It's running a remote back up program for off site
> backups.) Anyway, no computer at work can "see" the home computer in the
> Network Places. Also, if I try to manually add a Network Place, either by
> using the home computer's name and shared drive (\\home\remotebackup\) it
> will fail. It will fail if i try to mount the drive by using the ip
> (\\10.0.0.2) I also get a failure. I"m assuming this is an issue with
> Windows Firewall. The settings are such that I can't disdable them on the
> home machine (the button is greyed out.)
>
> Any ideas on what I should do to enable the home computer's shared folder
> to appear on a work computer?
>
>


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