Re: Browsing the network through vpn tunnel

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Rholton <Rholton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's complicated, the customer of mine was using a work group before
and has a bunch of older servers (Non Domain Controllers) and most of
his equipment uses Administrator for login.We are in the process of
bringing him into reality.

Got it. Best of luck.

How do you set a wins server for the vpn?

Do you have WINS running on your network now? All machines & servers
registered in the WINS database?
Wherever you control your DHCP addressing for PPTP clients, it goes there,
just as for your LAN connected clients.
Personally, I don't bother - I don't need people to browse over VPN - and
it's tricky to make work right.



"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

Rholton <Rholton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When a user connects to the SBS server through the ptpp vpn
connection, the client station cannot see other computers in the
workgroup/domain. How can I enable that?

Browsing = netBIOS, and NetBIOS isn't routable. Browsing across a
routed connection means either using WINS (set the WINS server IP in
your VPN client config) or, more primitively, using LMHOSTs.

Neither of these is perfect and you may not always be able to
browse. Do you really need to? Using a login script/batch file to
map drives is easy enough....so is typing \\server\share in an
address bar.

You mention a workgroup - why is there a workgroup on your company
network?



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