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Linksys R042 VPN

Experts,

I am perplexed...

I have 2 remote locations (home office / remote office) and two linksys r042 VPN routers. Now, after configuring the tunnel between the two routers, I am able to access ip addresses / printers from both locations, but can not access any domain resources (ie. join a domain, look at the share drive / view networked computers). But when I put the computer back on the home network everything works fine...

It seems as though for some reason, I can do everything through the VPN tunnel, but domain resources / the ability to join the domain gets snuffed out.

Has anyone had a similar issue?

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Rob Williams

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rcasteel

There are several things that can cause this, but one of the most common is the name resolution issue. If you are running w2k and newer, you should have a DNS server or two. If you have multiple DNs servers, be sure the windows domain zones are set to replicate. If this does not happen, you may not be able to resolve names that are dynamic.

If you are using legacy clients that use NetBIOS naming, you must use WINS and perform appropriate push/pull configurations if you have multiple DNS servers.

A common issue with VPNs is that both ends of the tunnel use the same subnet i.e. 192.168.x.x . You must properly subnet each end of the tunnel. I do not think this is teh issue because other IP traffic seems to work for you.

You should not need LMHOSTS files if you use WINS. You do not need WINS unless you are using older clients (NT4.0 and older)

sailing42

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Updated the file on the computers and everything is working swimmingly! - Thanks a million

Rob Williams

Glad it worked out for you sailing42.
Thanks,
--Rob