VPN AND SHARED FOLDERS

[vanna520]

I have posted this problem before. Unfortunately, the difference now is that none of my users can’t access shared folder. Before, only couple of them had that problem.
We are behind Netscreen firewall and all users have full VPN access to shared folder and mail. Accessing mail has never been a problem, but at the present access to the shared drives no longer works via dial up. You get the message 'Network name not found' or you don't see anything even though it says the drive is online.
This is more and more frustrating every day as I can’t see the logical reason for this. All users have FULL access to shared drive and domain controller, which is hosting these files.
We are increasing number of our staff every week and I wonder does it have anything to do with the number of users accessing network trough VPN?
Can somebody please help as I can’t take this any more (my hair is falling out, lol)?

 

[jules111]

Vanna, I'm havint the same problem. Have you found a solution??

Help
Juliano

 

[JMHuze]

WOW! I am not alone in this. lol
I have remote users connecting to our network thru an Avaya VPN and none of them can connect to shared network drives. If anyone has seen this and has recommendations I would be greatly appreciative.

 

[bilebalar]

we got that problem before... network path not found... this has to do with netbios, did your dial-up isp blocked ports 137-139?

we were first thinking something went wrong with our vpn setup but it turns out those ports are blocked.

hope this helps.

 

[MontrealSoft]

I'm presently working on this...
It seems that a VPN behind a NAT don't allow you to browse the network with NETBIOS.
You have to work with a WINS server or LMHOST to allow the client to see Netbios Name on the local network.

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