File Sharing Over Cisco VPN

[bodycare]

Here is the what is happening at the minute;

The VPn connects fine I can access email and ping IP's in my network but when I try and access shares on my server by using \\servername\sharename it only brings the offline version up ?

But yet if I try \\ipaddressofserver\sharename it prompts me for a username and password and once entered I can access all of the shares.

Please could someone help me as I want to just put in the name rather than the IP address

 

[fdurham]

What type of VPN iis it?
Is it set up to provide DNS and/or WINS to the VPN client?

What happens if you ping the names both ways?
Ex. ping nameofserver
ping nameofserver.yourdomain.com

Frank

 

[dufresnem]

On your pc, open notepad and grab the hosts file located under \windows\system32\drivers\etc and add your hostname and IP there.

After that you will be able to map to a share by hostname.