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SonicWall GVPN clients can only see shares if IP not name is used

I have a good working SonicWall and several of our users need file access to a shared drive.
My testing shows its no problem to see the shares if I use
\\X.X.X.X\share
but not
\\name\share

I have researched it and made sure that I turned on the "use netbios broadcast" option in the GVPN setup.

We are not in a domain. I could add X.X.X.X to their individual host files ( I have seen this answer) or just tell them to live with X.X.X.X but was hoping that I was just overlooking something.

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azpete

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Thanks for your response,

I must admit DNS is one of my weak points in understanding.
Since we are not in a Domain I am not 100% sure how local computer names get resolved !
All the XP and Win7 workgroup workstations point to the SonicWall as their Gateway

The SonicWalls DNS settings are all public DNS servers ( 8.8.8.8 etc, etc)

I really never thought about how they figure out names in their local workgroup but they do .

( just not our gVPN clients <grin>

I just did a nslookup command on my workstation ( i am dhcp client) and it replied with one of the public addresses that the SonicWall hands out.

Thanks again, I would very much like to hear your thoughts on this...

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