Re: Cannot see computers by name

Have you enabled to allow NetBIOS over TCP at all sites? Did you check that
WINS is supplied by your DHCP?

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Claus
"Brian" <Brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One more comment: the invisible computers do appear in the WINS DB on the
SBS2003 DC. When removed from the WINS DB, they reappear after running
netstat -RR run at client and re-displaying records on WINS server.

I can find each of them by name if I right-click on My Network Places and
Search for Computers; however, I am still unable to see the stations at
the
FVS318v3 VPN site remotely via My Network Places.

Still planning on swapping routers to test, but I don't think I understand
NetBIOS very well...

"Claus" wrote:

Your troubleshooting is very sound and I agree that it's most likely the
router. Before replacing the on router, I would probably first try to
switch
them so you can verify your suspicion.

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Claus
"Brian" <Brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here's the short version of the question:

If I can ping a workstation by its NetBIOS name across a VPN and can
find
it
by its IP address doing a Search for Computers in Network Places, but
it
does
not appear in Network Places, what am I missing?

Here's the long version of the same question:

SBS2003 domain.
Server & 35 workstations local
Two remote LAN's connected via hardware VPN (i.e. one at host site, one
at
each client site)
Each remote LAN has about six workstations
Windows firewall disabled on all stations.
DNS is correctly configured on all workstations to point to the SBS.
SBS
points to itself for DNS with correct ISP forwarders.

Both VPN's work perfectly, except for one thing. All workstations can
access
the server (e-mail, shared files, printers), I can ping all
workstations,
including those across the VPN's, from the server by their NetBIOS
names
(and
vice versa, workstation-to-server), but cannot see any of the
workstations
on
one of the remote VPN's via Network Places. I can find them by IP
address
but
not by name. I can see the PC's via the other remote VPN just fine.

The effect is that I cannot distribute Symantec Corporate to the
clients
on
one VPN. Symantec says, "If you can't see workstations in Network
Places,
then the remote client install won't work." Well, I already discovered
that.

So I contacted Netgear about their VPN/router boxes, and they tell me
it
is
a Windows problem and recommended that I Search for Computers using the
IP
addresses of the PC's. This works but does not solve my Symantec
problem.
I
suspect something in the Netgear FVS318v3 VPN box (FVS338 at host,
FVS318
at
good site, FVS318v3 at failing site).

Is there anything I am missing in Windows? My next step is to replace
the
failing VPN box with one identical to the working one & THEN go back to
Netgear with proof of the problem.





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