Topic: Browsing Domain through SME PDC ++

[Kingnubian]

This is my setup.

SMC 7004VBR Router behind which is,
1x WXP machine
         &
1x SME Server configured in server only mode and acting as a PDC. PPTP connections are enabled.  ports 1723 and 47 are fowrded to the sme box.

Remote PPTP VPN connections are getting through and authenticating properly (As far as I can tell) and the connected users can browse the IBAY and thier respective personal folders on the SME box just fine.

The problem is they can't get access to the WXP machine and it's shared folders.  Browsing the SME machine is no problem at all.

The "You don't have permission" message pops up. Now I have come a long way with SME and this is probebly an easy one to answer but I can use all the help I can get.

Next Question, regarding Ibays. Any file in the initial Ibay directory can be seen but anything in an additional folder cannot be seen. The folder is seen but the contents are not visible. Logging in with putty and browsing with Midnight Commander  I can see that the files are indeed there. Any Ideas?/

[Rob Wellesley]

Kingnubian wrote:

>
> The problem is they can't get access to the WXP machine and
> it's shared folders.  Browsing the SME machine is no problem
> at all.
>
> The "You don't have permission" message pops up.

I suppose this is obvious but have you checked the permissions on the XP share?

[Tyrone Miles]

Browsing in windows requires netbios and when you go across switches, routers, VPN's also requires that you have a WINS setting on the machine that is doing the browsing.

Normaly this will not matter on a small local network, you don't need WINS because netbios broadcasts even when it's going across TCP/IP.. (Which is nomaly enabled by default as netbios over TCP/IP)

The one thing I do know is that when you throw routers, VPN's and other things in mix netbios doesn't work very well even on TCP/IP..

Now if you just need to map drives and don't really need to browse you should be able to map a drive by putting in the path \machinename\sharename

If you need to browse you may want to add the SME server as your wins server and that should work. (It seems to work for me.)

I am not sure when the VPN in e-smith assigns your IP info using DHCP what all settings it puts in.

[Kingnubian]

Rob Wellesley wrote:
>
> Kingnubian wrote:
>
> >
> > The problem is they can't get access to the WXP machine and
> > it's shared folders.  Browsing the SME machine is no problem
> > at all.
> >
> > The "You don't have permission" message pops up.
>
> I suppose this is obvious but have you checked the
> permissions on the XP share?

Yes I have checked the permissions.

[Kingnubian]

You WINS advice worked 100%. Thank you very very much for the info. Everything is working as intended now.Tyrone Miles wrote:
>
> Browsing in windows requires netbios and when you go across
> switches, routers, VPN's also requires that you have a WINS
> setting on the machine that is doing the browsing.
>
> Normaly this will not matter on a small local network, you
> don't need WINS because netbios broadcasts even when it's
> going across TCP/IP.. (Which is nomaly enabled by default as
> netbios over TCP/IP)
>
> The one thing I do know is that when you throw routers, VPN's
> and other things in mix netbios doesn't work very well even
> on TCP/IP..
>
> Now if you just need to map drives and don't really need to
> browse you should be able to map a drive by putting in the
> path \machinename\sharename
>
> If you need to browse you may want to add the SME server as
> your wins server and that should work. (It seems to work for
> me.)
>
> I am not sure when the VPN in e-smith assigns your IP info
> using DHCP what all settings it puts in.

[Tyrone C. Miles]

Glad I could be of service.