ICS and VPN

[Simon Woods]

Hi

I'm running Win2K with ICS with 2 other machines accessing the Web through
my machine. I'm using Win2K's own Internet Connection Sharing feature.

I've just been given some VPN software to install so I can access my Office
network via a VPN. What I'm finding is that, having successfully made a
connection to the web and then the office via the VPN, if ICS is enabled
although I can ping one of the office machine's IP address, I can't ping
it's name, so my I don't appear to be getting any name resolution, but it
then means that I can't see any file servers nor the mail server. If I stop
ICS everything seems to work as it should, I can see the network and the
mail servers etc.

My VPN software is WatchGuard's Mobile User VPN client.

I really don't know too much about this so am wondering if there any
tweaks/settings in Win2K I can play around with.

Thanks

Simon

 

[Sergio Moreno]

Hello,

ICS does network translation and it is probably not translating addresses in NetBIOS datagram headers.
Did you ever tried to use RRAS for VPN access? This could with browsing.
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From: "Simon Woods" <[email protected]>
Subject: ICS and VPN
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:22:16 +0100

Hi

I'm running Win2K with ICS with 2 other machines accessing the Web through
my machine. I'm using Win2K's own Internet Connection Sharing feature.

I've just been given some VPN software to install so I can access my Office
network via a VPN. What I'm finding is that, having successfully made a
connection to the web and then the office via the VPN, if ICS is enabled
although I can ping one of the office machine's IP address, I can't ping
it's name, so my I don't appear to be getting any name resolution, but it
then means that I can't see any file servers nor the mail server. If I stop
ICS everything seems to work as it should, I can see the network and the
mail servers etc.

My VPN software is WatchGuard's Mobile User VPN client.

I really don't know too much about this so am wondering if there any
tweaks/settings in Win2K I can play around with.

Thanks

Simon

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Sergio Moreno
Microsoft Windows Networking

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