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Title: VPN Windows XP home and workgroups
Post by: Joachim Koenen on September 25, 2002, 05:23:03 PM

Hi everybody,
I have a VPN connection over our SME server into a local network. Therfore I can ping and tcp and http within this network (e.g. access the SMEserver-manager, but I am not able to see the computers in the windows workgroup of the local net.
In the outer net I am in a workgroup with the same name.
What's wrong?

TIA

Jo

Title: Re: VPN Windows XP home and workgroups
Post by: Michael Maggard on September 26, 2002, 03:06:54 AM

Joachim Koenen wrote:

> I have a VPN connection over our SME server into a local
> network. Therfore I can ping and tcp and http within this
> network (e.g. access the SMEserver-manager, but I am not able
> to see the computers in the windows workgroup of the local net.
> In the outer net I am in a workgroup with the same name.
> What's wrong?

At a guess take a look at port 137, see if the MS networking information is even being propagated.

Title: Re: VPN Windows XP home and workgroups
Post by: Joachim Koenen on September 26, 2002, 11:46:35 AM

Michael Maggard wrote:

> At a guess take a look at port 137, see if the MS networking
> information is even being propagated.

I believe I am in the net and everything from tcpip is propagated over  vpn to my computer. I have enabled netbios over tcp on my pc.

Title: Re: VPN Windows XP home and workgroups
Post by: Graeme Robinson on October 02, 2002, 06:06:41 AM

XP home doesn't support LAN connections to a fileserver thus although you should be able to connect to a VPN you won't be able to see mapped drives, etc.