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Viewing network across VPN tunnel

I have a network of around 70 users. Mostly are Macs running OSX 10.4 but there are also some XP SP2 clients. The servers are also a mixture of OSX Server & Windows Server 2003. We use MS SQL2000 & Exchange 2003 amongst others. Our VPN network is built using Draytek kit and all works well. All clients & servers on the LAN can see all resources. However when Mac users go to the end of the VPN pipe they cannot browse the network from within Finder. Exchange & SQL are ok. Can ping the servers and get a good response time. Cannot browse. Any thoughts? Thanks.

matheweis

Most likely it is due to the fact the Mac's networking browsing relies on Bonjour (Rendezvous), which does not travel across subnets.

You may have some levels of success by properly configuring WINS, and/or joining the macs to the Windows Active Directory.

stagetech

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I have added some of the Macs to AD. Will test this and see what i can get out of it... Ongoing saga!!

walsellers

AppleTalk will not work across a tunnel either. This will stop you from browsing for a printer or file server. TCP/IP connections will work fine for such things once the IP address is known.

Bonjour will generally not work across a tunnel either. Probably because Bonjour uses broadcast packets.

stagetech

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so in other words users cannot browse across the network? Only to specific IP's of boxes they know?

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