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Posted by Drake on December 21, 2006, 6:49 am
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>> What is all this stuff about VPN.
>> We've bought a router and client software all by
>> Netgear. It handles our 12 node peer to peer LAN
>> great and I can even get it to "connect" and ping from
>> home with the client software, but it shows "nothing" in
>> the explorer. No C drive no folders no nothing. I checked
>> and all of our nodes at work have at least 5 folders that are
>> shared, but nothing shows. I've asked Netgear but they
>> don't know why we are having this problem.
>> Is VPN still a long way from being a reality in
>> most cases?
>>
> Assuming your hosts are running MS Windows, the problem is
> that Windows uses netbios, a non-routable protocol, for p2p
> resource sharing. Netgear support should be able to tell you
> how to route netbios over tcp/ip through their equipment.
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and take a look at this. It has some relevant info about WINS
and NetBIOS:
http://www.7eplus.com/solutions/networking/VPNtips.pdf
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