Re: Remote access to server folder shares

Hi Derek
Well, in fact it is not sorted out at all. I have tried to install the
packages that I have found on the thread but with no success. The peculiar
thing is that remote access to folder shares is spontaneously working on
Vista clients but on XP clients they work all the time.

Does anyone have any input on the issue?

"Derek" wrote:

Its probably all sorted, but what was the solution?

I'm curious, just had my first experience of getting some vista pc's talking
with some xp pc's on the same simple network (workgroup). Vista pc's could
see each other, xp pc's could see each other, but not xp -> vista or vice
versa.

Finally sorted it, but its fiddly. XP pc's needed a downloaded from MS
(LLTD responder), set the Vista PC's network to "private" and it started
working ok after a few more tweaks.

Was wondering if this was affecting you too Richard?


"Richard Johansson, Parnasso"
<RichardJohanssonParnasso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry that I did not answer your previous question - yes I can do most
everything through the VPN connection - Exchange, RDP, WSUS, just not File
Sharing.

How do I do?

"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Windows is not going to appreciate the "dead" nic connection
My recommendation would be to straighten up the hardware config as it
should be.

You may have convered this before and perhaps I didn't see. Can you RDP
to the server?



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"Richard Johansson, Parnasso"
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"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

did you check the windows firewall on the vista machines to make sure
pptp is being passed?

My other question would be...for the users that are connecting
remotely...do they have desktop machines at the office??

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"Richard Johansson, Parnasso"
<RichardJohanssonParnasso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi again!
I have now tried to connect to the VPN connection from an XP
Professional
Installation that was hosted on my Windows Vista Business Computer. The
XP
Pro installation was not joined to the domain but the issue that I have
described before did not occur when I connected from the XP Machine.
Since
the XP machine was not joined to the domain, I had to type
\\192.168.14.2\[Share name] instead of \\[Server name]\[Share name] but
since
I have tried this on my Vista machines as well, I reckon this as a
Vista
issue.

Do you have any ideas about what to do in this situation? Are there any
available hotfixes for SBS2003R2 or is changing the IP range back to
192.168.12.2 perhaps an option?

Thank you so much for your help and time.

Yours
Richard J, Parnasso

"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Have you tried an XP machine and are you having the same issues???

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"Richard Johansson, Parnasso"
<RichardJohanssonParnasso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, Cris, the internal IP range changed when I moved it. Before I
had the IP
range 192.168.12.3 - 192.168.12.150

Now, when doing the moving, I changed the internal IP range to
192.168.14.3
- 192.168.14.254.

Just before I got the notification about your post, I actually got
connected
to the server and could browse the contents of the folders.
However, to do a
synchronisation of the offline folders that I have in my Vista
BUsiness
notebook was impossible. Neither could I do basic browsing from my
Vista
Ultimate x64-computer that is also hooked to the same LAN and is
having a
separate VPN PPTP tunnel to the server.

What do you suggest I do?

"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

> did the internal IP range of the SBS server change when you moved
it?
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> "Richard Johansson, Parnasso"
<RichardJohanssonParnasso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have a question regarding our SBS that is situated on a
server hotel in
> Sweden, not far from us. Before moving the server to this
server hotel, it
> was situated at our regular office but is now moved. The
connection line for
> the server is as follows:
>
> Internet -> Transparent Firewall -> SBS
>
> Before we moved it, the setup was like this instead:
>
> Internet -> Router with NAT -> SBS
>
> The SBS has been reconfigured and is now configured with dual
NICs. Internet
> is working just fine as well as Exchange features along with
DirectPush for
> our PDAs. The only problem that we do experience is that we are
having
> problem accessing the shares that are shared on the SBS. From
time to time
> there is access, so the problem is not consequent either. I
have a theory
> that there is a limit in the transparent firewall as to the
number of PPTP
> VPN connections that can be established within a certain time
interval.
>
> I have run both the "CEICW" as well as the "Configure remote
access" wizard
> and everything seems to be fine. I also want to configure an
internal DHCP
> server within the SBS that is to manage the IP leases for the
incoming VPN
> connections. Is there anyone having any ideas about this issue?
>
> Thanks in advance for good help

The setup with a firewall change has been carried through and I have now
tested to connect to the remote network with having the port 1723 opened
in
the client side Vista Ultimate firewall. The result remains the same. I
have
tried to access the following UNCs:

\\[server name]

\\[FQDN of server]

\\[server name]\[server share]

\\[server ip address on LAN]

All show me the same result - not able to reach the share. The error code
was 0x80070035 "The network path can not be found". I have changed the
VPN
PPTP connection to have a static DNS entry for the IP-address of the
remote
server, as well as the WINS-server entry. I have changed the settings
NetBIOS
over TCP/IP to be activated for both the LAN connection and the
PPTP-connection, but with no change.

I hope to be able to resolve this issue asap, as my users are
experiencing
the same problem





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