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did you make the routers on each end the defult gateways for the computers in that office?<br />
Is netbios over tcp/ip enabled on the computers?<br />
Can the computers browse other computers on their own side of the router?<br />

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did you make the routers on each end the defult gateways for the computers in that office?
Is netbios over tcp/ip enabled on the computers?
Can the computers browse other computers on their own side of the router?


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Are they all in the same work group?<br />
Try browsing to \\workgroup\computername<br />

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Are they all in the same work group?
Try browsing to \\workgroup\computername


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sorry, make that \\computername.workgroupna<wbr />me<br />

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sorry, make that \\computername.workgroupname


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I would have gotten to that eventually...&lt;G&gt;<br />

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I would have gotten to that eventually...<G>


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I have a site to site vpn with Linksys RV042's on both sides. &nbsp;I have Netbios broadcasts enabled on both routers. &nbsp;I entered the host name in the hosts file on the PC's on each end, so I can ping across the network by IP and hostname, but if I try to browse \\computername across the VPN, I get network path not found. &nbsp;I entered a record in the lmhosts file but that did not work. &nbsp;These are XP machines and I do not have a server on either network. &nbsp;What do you recommend?
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I have a site to site vpn with Linksys RV042's on both sides.  I have Netbios broadcasts enabled on both routers.  I entered the host name in the hosts file on the PC's on each end, so I can ping across the network by IP and hostname, but if I try to browse \\computername across the VPN, I get network path not found.  I entered a record in the lmhosts file but that did not work.  These are XP machines and I do not have a server on either network.  What do you recommend?

Can't browse over vpn, no server

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A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

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The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.