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VPN Please help cannot access shares

Hi Experts

Any help appreciated.

I have 2 win2k3 servers at different locations

I connect server A to server B over internet VPN

Port forward 1723 on linksys router on server B

connects - authenticates - logs in no problem at all

Server B is a DHCP server to incoming connections.

I can use VNC to connect to server B using a lan IP 192.168.1.100

BUT I cannot access any of the network shares on server B

I tried DMZ very quickly and with no luck then turned it off again.

I can VNC backward and forward between both server a and b so I am guessing that the TCP Protocol is getting through ok.

I can ping no problem at all

any ideas??

Thanks very much.
Nik

jjoseph_x

If you try to access the machines via the IP like \\192.168.0.11 do you see their shares? Because it could be a name resolution issue.

nikdonovanau

ASKER

Thanks for that - I cant access any network shares using names or ip addresses. I get the error 'no network provider accepted the given path'

jjoseph_x

It sounds like NetBIOS (SMB) might not be blocked. How are you making the VPN connection?

nikdonovanau

ASKER

Thanks jjoseph_x
Sorry for the delay. My firewall setup is:
Linksys ADSL 2 Router with http & mail ports open and forward to server -> D-Link VPN Router (in Linksys DMZ) forward vpn to server -> server with no software firewall.
The strange thing is I can ping 'server' and it resolves to 192.168.1.100 and I get 0% packet loss.
I can even VNC direct by typing 'server' in the connection box.
trying to connect via cmd I get error 67
I cannot telnet to 'server' over VPN but locally I can
Thanks again for you help thus far.

jjoseph_x

Hmmm. So VNC works fine, but telnet does not? It really sounds like ports are being blocked (there's no other for VNC - port 5900 - to work and not telnet).

Are you sure that there are no firewalls on that box? Not even the Microsoft built-in firewall?

nikdonovanau

ASKER

Thanks for the reply,

I have done a port scan over the VPN connection and the following ports are open

25,42,53,80,88,110,119,135,143,389,445,464,563,593,636,691,993,995,1024,1034,1723,3068,3268,3269,3306,3389,5800,5900,6001,6002,6004

Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks again
Nik

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nikdonovanau

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Thanks for all your help experts. I was in an environment where I could not restart the server. However what I did to solve the problem is to wait until the slowest possible time, kick everyone off and reboot the server. Something so simple can be so hard sometimes.