Re: VPN and browsing 'My Network Places'

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Robarb <Robarb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Somewhat of a newbie here. I have SB2003 with ISA2004 running well.
When I connect from the outside world using VPN, my IP address gets
set properly, I can get to my company's 'internal website' with IE,
and I can print to our internal printers. But I can't browse 'My
Network Places'. It just sits there for a long time and eventually
times out. So I can't get to any of our internal shared hard drives.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Rob

Sure you can. \\server\share should work; that isn't reliant on browsing.

Browsing over a routed connection rarely, if ever, works. If your VPN client
IP contains your WINS server IP, you may (may!) get it to work - but don't
bother, because you don't need it.

Note that VPN access to shared files is usually not so great, from a
performance standpoint. Using RDP via your Remote Web Workplace page to a
WinXP Pro box on the network, will be much better.


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