Mapping Drives from Remote Location

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I have a two office locations. They are connected to each other with two netopia T1 Routers using PPPTP

In my first location i have a Linksys firewall IP 10.1.1.1 with and a private IP DHCP my server configuration is as follows

domain a (No Wins Server
IP 10.1.1.
Gateway 10.1.1.
DNS 10.1.1.
Subnet 255.225.255.

In my second location i have a Linksys firewall IP 192.168.254.1 with and a private IP DHCP my server configuration is as follows

domain b Has a WINS Serve
IP 192.168.254.
Gateway 192.168.254.
DNS ISP DNS SERVER
Subnet 255.255.255.

Here is what I can do can ping to and from domain a and domain b. I can also run tracert to and from domain a and b and everthing is fine

Now from Domain B remote location I can use the following to map drives net use command or unc path and it maps it with no problem

From Domain A I can not do either it says path is not found try using search. I do and it does not find it (wierd since I can ping it

I have lmhots lookup and netbios over tcpicp enabled.

If there is any suggestions you would have I would greatly appriciate it

Thank you in advanc

 

[Arild Bakken]

When on Domain A, try telnetting to the fileserver (prefferably by name) to
port 445 (SMB). Do you get connected? If not, then you should check the
firewall configuration and swithc packet filtering setup.


Arild

I have a two office locations. They are connected to each other with two

netopia T1 Routers using PPPTP.

In my first location i have a Linksys firewall IP 10.1.1.1 with and a

private IP DHCP my server configuration is as follows

domain a (No Wins Server)
IP 10.1.1.2
Gateway 10.1.1.1
DNS 10.1.1.2
Subnet 255.225.255.0

In my second location i have a Linksys firewall IP 192.168.254.1 with and

a private IP DHCP my server configuration is as follows

domain b Has a WINS Server
IP 192.168.254.2
Gateway 192.168.254.1
DNS ISP DNS SERVERS
Subnet 255.255.255.0

Here is what I can do can ping to and from domain a and domain b. I can

also run tracert to and from domain a and b and everthing is fine.

Now from Domain B remote location I can use the following to map drives

net use command or unc path and it maps it with no problem.

From Domain A I can not do either it says path is not found try using

search. I do and it does not find it (wierd since I can ping it)

 

[Alan Wood [MSFT]]

Hi
From Domain A can you do the following.
At a DOS prompt:
nbtstat -A IPaddress

Were IPaddress is an IPaddress of a system in Domain B. It sounds like
netbios is being blocked in one direction. Please let me know how this test
goes.

Thank you,
Alan Wood[MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Arild Bakken]

Well.. that means your DNS settings in Domain A cannot resolve names from
Domain B. need to fix that.

Also, I assume you know the IP address of the fileserver in Domain B, so try
telnetting to port 445 using the IP address instead.


Arild

Alan,

I tried your suggestion and I recieved the following HOST NOT FOUND.

Please advise on any further troubleshooting

 

[Arild Bakken]

In fact... you should consider the following:

At Domain B setup your own DNS server and have all clients in Domain B use
that as DNS. (just like in Domain A)

Then at the DNS server in Domain A, create a secondary zone for Domain B and
point to the DNS server in Domain B - this will perform a Zone transfer so
that the DNS server in Domain A knows all IPs in Domain B. And do the same
for DNS server in Domain B. That should fix your name resolution problem.

You may also want to update the DHCP servers in each domain so that clients
get both domain suffixes in the searchorder in the TCP/IP setup (domaina.com
and domainb.com) so that you don't have to suffix the cross domain use with
the complete domain path - but that's up to you.


Arild

Alan,

I tried your suggestion and I recieved the following HOST NOT FOUND.

Please advise on any further troubleshooting

 

[Arild Bakken]

Maybe, you'd probably have to set up some kind of datatransfer between them
so that all computers in both domains know the names and ip's of all
computers in both domains.

If you do this through hosts files, dns or wins does not really matter when
it comes to mapping the drive.


Arild

Arild,

Just wondering if it would make any difference if I had a WINS Server on

Domain A.