Re: Netbios over Sonicwall tz170 VPN Connection
From: Lars M. Hansen (badnews_at_hansenonline.net)
Date: 06/29/04
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:29:06 GMT
On 28 Jun 2004 13:17:32 -0700, dball63 spoketh
>I have a new Sonicwall tz170 and VPN setup. For the last few weeks I
>have been having trouble getting to mapped drives via Netbios name.
>Via IP address works fine and at this point my only alternative is to
>change login scripts to map to IP addresses instead of netbios names
>and that looks messy.
>
>Sonicwall support has been little help so far and they claim that the
>reason may be that we are connecting to the VPN with 56K modem.
>
>I testing I have been successful using Netbios to mapped drives with
>my own laptop and cannot figure out why I am unsuccessful with my
>clients laptops. The only diference that I can think of is that with
>the clients laptops I login to Windows using cached domain credentials
>and then establish a VPN connection. With my laptop I login with a
>local account and then VPN.
>
>Anybody else have similar issue? Otherwise I may just change the login
>scripts and be done with it even though I hate to.
>
>David Ball CNE, MCSE
Any time you need NetBIOS name resolution across networks, you need to
use WINS. Install a WINS server at the main location, have your file
server(s) register with it as well as the workstations at the remote
location(s).
Lars M. Hansen
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