No access to network shares over VPN from Vista

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Dear experts


I have a problem accessing any network shares from "outside the LAN" "Windos
Server 2003"-systems with a "Windows Vista"-system:

Detailed description:
I have a LAN behind a ADSL-Router and in this LAN there are
Vista-Vista-WS1: A Windows Vista Business Edition x64 (English)(current
patch level)
Vista-WS2: A Windows Vista Business Edition x86 (German)(current
patch level)
Vista-WS3: A Windows Vista Business Edition x86 (English)(current
patch level) in a Virtual Machine
XP-WS: A Windows XP Professional Edition x86
(English)(current patch level)
Srv-LAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
level) in a Virtual Machine
The Windows Server is configured as domain
controller, VPN-Server, DNS-Server, File-Server

I have a workplace environment in another site which can be accessed over
VPN:
DC-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
level) as Domain Controller
Exchange-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch level) as
Exchange Server
FS-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
level) as File Server
VPN-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
level) as VPN-Server
Web-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
level) as Web-Server

Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS
can successfully connect over VPN with Srv-LAN and can
successfully map any share from Srv-LAN
Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS can successfully connect over VPN
with VPN-WAN
Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS can successfully connect with the
Exchange Server Exchange-WAN
Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS can successfully connect with the Web
Server Web-WAN
Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3 always fail to map any share from FS-WAN
XP-WS can successfully map any share from FS-WAN


Error messages:
c:\> net use x: \\<fqdn>\share
"System error 1214 has occured. The format of the specified network name is
invalid."
c:\> net use x: \\<NetBIOS-Name>\share
"System error 53 has occured. The network path was not found."
c:\> net use x: \\<IP-address>\share
"System error 53 has occured. The network path was not found."


Any ideas?
Thanks for your support in advance!

Dear regards and a happy new year...




Robert Fischer

 

[msnews.microsoft.com]

Sorry for wrong "From" and bad formatting!
I try it once again!

Robert Fischer

 

[Rolf Barbakken]

No ideas, I'm afraid, but you are not alone. Many others experience the
same. Search this NG for my enquiry into the same problem.

 

[Robert Fischer]

Hello Stuart

Thanks for your suggestion but k899148 doesn´t solve the problem:
I´m working with static packet filters (netsh ipsec static) and I´ve opened
all ports on the filesserver FS-WAN for the VPN-Server VPN-WAN.
The local Server Srv-LAN has the same packet filter configuration ref. VPN.
All Vista Workstations located as domain members in my workplace environment
don´t have any problems and they find exactly the same opened ports!

I´m looking forward to find a solution...
Best regards


Robert

 

[Robert Fischer]

Hello Stuart

Thanks for your response!
No way, it doesn´t work!
I´ve decided to use a Microsoft support incident; I will let you know about
the results...
Best regards


Robert

 

[Robert Fischer]

Hello Admins

For security reasons I had disabled NetBIOS in the TCP/IP settings on all
servers.
Windows Vista can´t handle this!
With NetBIOS enabled, everthing works properly!
Very special thanks to Mr. Aslaner from Microsoft for supporting me with
this problem!
Best regards


Robert Fischer

 

[Robert Fischer]

Hello Admins

Windows Vista requires an open port 139 and NetBIOS enabled on the server to map a server share through a VPN connection - very poor for security!!!
But Microsoft is goin´ to fix that problem, they confirmed!
Best regards

Robert

 

[Mike Howells]

Robert,

I am in the same boat as you are with this problem.

However, I enabled NetBIOS on the server (Windows Server 2003 R2 x64
Enterprise Edition).

I also opened TCP Port 139 and UDP Port 139 on the server but I still
receive the following error:

Windows Cannot Access \\10.x.y.z\d$

Error code: 0x80070035
The network path was not found.

Mike

 

[Thomas H.]

Hello Admins

Windows Vista requires an open port 139 and NetBIOS enabled on the
server to map a server share through a VPN connection - very poor for
security!!!
But Microsoft is goin´ to fix that problem, they confirmed!
Best regards

Robert

ehrm, the port 139 has to be open on the public ip of the remote server,
eventho one is in a different private network when using vpn? did i get
that right? i sure hope NOT!

- thomas

 

[Guest]

Out of curiosity, what is the status of ports 137 and 138?