Connecting to Windows Network via VPN

[Tim]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 13:46 -0400, Tom Rivers wrote:
> DNS is completely different than NetBIOS.  NetBIOS is a Microsoft-
> specific protocol used to identify servers, printers and other resources
> on a LAN.  DNS is a universally accepted way of translating domain names
> into IP addresses.  Having one configured doesn't necessarily imply that
> the other is configured as well.
> 
> The only reason I made reference to NetBIOS not necessarily being passed
> over a VPN tunnel is that most of the appliances I have worked with have
> a setting that can be used to propagate NetBIOS over a VPN tunnel.  I am
> certainly not trying to assert anything other than I have seen
> situations where it is not automatically configured by default.

WINS is supposed to be Microsoft's answer to dealing with machine names
and IPs across subnets.  Perhaps the poster needs a WINS server between
both sides of the connections to handle name resolution?  They could
play with lmhosts file, but that's only useful for static addresses.

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