Browse through router provided VPN?

[Guest]

Home has a cable modem, D-Link DI-804HV VPN firewall
router, and a network starting at 192.168.0.1. Office has
a T1 with a static IP, same router, network starting at
192.168.1.1. XP Pro machines at both ends. I want to be
able to browse the machine at work from home, and map a
drive.

The routers can apparently provide an encrypted VPN
tunnel. I configured a tunnel from firewall to firewall,
including encryption settings. NetBIOS broadcast is
enabled at both ends, although the router instructions
don't say anything about the feature. The routers also
have configuration pages for setting up PPTP Server
settings and L2TP Server settings. I am assuming that
these would be required if I only had this router at one
end, and the XP box was originating a VPN and doing the
encryption, am I on target here? I'm assuming that if the
firewalls are providing an encrypted bridge between the
sub-networks, then the XP boxes don't need to set up their
own VPN?

Now, so far, I can ping machines at the opposite end. I
cannot see them when I browse. At the home end, I set up
an LMHOSTS file. Now I can ping the machine at the shop
using the machine name. I still cannot browse. The
computers on the two segments have different workgroup
names. The opposite workgroup does not appear when I
browse.

What am I missing? What is required to browse beyond the
ability to ping by machine name? Which protocol? Is
NetBIOS required in XP? How do I troubleshoot this?
Anybody got a good URL to a help resource on this?

Thanks in advance,
Marty Hewes

 

[Sooner Al]

Try using the UNC...... From "Help and Support"

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Universal Naming Convention (UNC)

A convention for naming files and other resources beginning with two backslashes (\), indicating
that the resource exists on a network computer. UNC names conform to the \\SERVERNAME\SHARENAME
syntax, where SERVERNAME is the server's name and SHARENAME is the name of the shared resource. The
UNC name of a directory or file can also include the directory path after the share name, with the
following syntax: \\SERVERNAME\SHARENAME\DIRECTORY\FILENAME.

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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Browsing between subnets can be a PITA. If you take the LMHOSTS file out of
the picture temporarily (and either reboot or run nbtstat -R to reload), can
you still ping
a computer on the remote network by name? That will tell you whether the
NetBIOS
traffic is actually being passed through the connection, as the name
resolution will have to be performed by broadcast.

If you have servers running WINS, this can be made a lot easier....