Cannot map drives or browse folders thru VPN

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I have set up a vpn using a Dreytek vigour 2600 router and have got remote users to log in and access files, map drives etc. The lan is a domain running windows 2003 server, providing dhcp.

However one home user on XP Home can log onto the vpn and gets a local ip address (192.168.x.x) but cannot see server folders and therefore cannot map drives.

It seems that this user can only sometimes ping local machines by ip address.

I have changed the tcp/ip properties of the vpn connection so that its dns server is the lan server (not the isp dns).

The only other thing that i can think of is WINS but not sure how to set up this LMHOSTS file.

Would setting this up be the correct way to resolve the issue?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Regards

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Andrew Murphy

 

[yobri]

I have a Linksys 54G connected to a Linksys B..41 and the connection always stays up and never has a problem. My problem was in the static routes on each side of the router. Make sure you set those up or you won't be able to ping anything from router to router because it doesn't know where the destination is. Make sure when you set up the static routes that you use the ISP Gateway address for the outgoing network...

Example....
Network 1
192.168.1.0
On internet IP ADDRESS xx.xx.xx.89 and internet IP gateway xx.xx.xx.94.

Network 2
192.168.2.0
On internet IP ADDRESS xx.xx.xx.200 and internet IP gateway xx.xx.xx.95.

if a PC on Network 1 wants to PING a PC on Network 2 a static route must exist on the router on Network 1 that has a Network address of 192.168.2.0 a subnet of 255.255.255.0 and a gateway of xx.xx.xx.89 (not the gateway of Network 2 but the OUTGOING gateway)

Then you would do the reverse on the router at Network 2. YOu can then ping network IP addresses (192.168.x.x) on both sides of your network.

If you want to see Netbios names then simply add the addresses and names to your LMHOSTS file in your ...system32\config\etc\ directory.

I spent like a week solid jacking around with this thing to finally get it going. IT CAN BE DONE!!!!