VPN & Shared drives

[joobydooby]

I have 3 laptops running XP Pro, all of them can get a VPN connection with their broadband service from home, but when browsing the shared drives the folder hierarchy within is not visible. They can access their exchange mailboxes (Outlook) just fine.

We are running W2K server and ISA if that's of any use.

This has got me beat, any ideas?

thanks


Julian

 

[ChicagoTechNet]

can you ping the server by name?if yes, what do you get when using net view \\servername?

Robert Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Windows, Network, Internet, VPN, Routing and How to at

http://www.ms-mvps.com

 

[joobydooby]

As I recall, I could ping the server name. It might be better for me to run your question past our I.T. consultant. I have to confess to being way out of my depth with this!

kind regards


Julian

 

[joobydooby]

One other interesting point - another laptop running XP Pro has an LMhosts file and doesn't exhibit the problem.

How do I get around this without resorting to adding the LMhosts to all machines. There must be a better way?


thanks


Julian

 

[rn4it]

Does you FW/VPN concentrator allow for IP Pooling? If so, configure a DNS server in the IP pool and allow the VPN clients access to the DNS server using the DNS service. Checkpoint calls this office mode.

 

[joobydooby]

Solved the problem!

See Microsoft Knowledgebase article 290523:-


thanks


Julian

 

[ChicagoTechNet]

Thank you very much for the feedback. we need that.

Robert Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Windows, Network, Internet, VPN, Routing and How to at

http://www.ms-mvps.com