Re: Browsing WIndows Network "broken" with Symantec VPN/100 firewall appliance

From: The OTHER Kevin in San Diego (skiddz)
Date: 11/17/02 

From: The OTHER Kevin in San Diego <skiddz *AT* adelphia *DOT* net>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:43:48 -0800

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 01:50:27 GMT, Lars M. Hansen
<badnews@hansenonline.net> wrote:

>Works fine on my SFV/100 .. There's no need for a special application
>"tweak" (I assume the two computers are connected on the LAN side...)

I didn't think there would be a need for anything special on the LAN
side, but thought I'd ask.

>Can you ping from one host to another? Are they all DHCP or static IP.
>Have you tried using the search/find computer to locate the other
>computers on the LAN? NetBIOS doesn't like it when IP addresses changes,
>and using Search (W2K, WXP) or Find (W9x, NT) will clean up the local
>name database does usually get your network browsing working again.

Yep, I can ping both ways. Machines are DHCP assigened from the
VPN/100 and I've made sure NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on both.
Tried to search for the computers, renamed the computers, nuked the
network stack and rebuilt it from scratch to no avail when the
firewall is in the loop.

At this point I'm going to put a friggin' LMHOSTS file on each
machines and see if that works when connected to the firewall. I'm
kinda confused 'cuz it works great if we take the firewall out of the
picture but eveything NetBIOS takes a horrendous dump once we connect
back to the firewall..

>Hope that helps ...

At this point I'm thinking a sacrificail chicken and some holy water
might ds the trick.. heheh

Thanks for the suggestions..

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