RE: [FW1] SecuRemote and Network Neighborhood

[Scott Hunter]

Title: RE: [FW1] SecuRemote and Network Neighborhood

Without a WINS entry, you will not get a browser list of machines on the network.  It's actually a minor point, but I have some people who are complaining that they can't browse the machines on the network.  Also, if you do not set your Primary domain suffix in the "More..." area of your Network Identification, then you must use the fully qualified name of your machines on your network that do not appear in your lmhosts file in order to access them.  For example, if you want to access a share on an NT box inside your firewall from your SR client you must click on Start then Run and type \\machine.domain.net\share rather than \\machine\share.  That's yet another thing WINS would take care of and I would not have to explain to my end users.

 

Don't get me wrong, I sincerely dislike WINS, but I don't have any Active Directory servers on my internal network.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Guyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:45 PM
To: 'Scott Hunter'
Subject: RE: [FW1] SecuRemote and Network Neighborhood

Could you possibly add WINS resolution in the properties of your DNS zone in the network you're connecting to? This way, the client would only have a DNS entry, no WINS. Just a thought, never tried it myself...........

 

Don Guyer
Network Engineer
Citadel FCU
Ph.: 800.666.0191
Fax: 610.380.6083
www.citadelfcu.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:04 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [FW1] SecuRemote and Network Neighborhood

What's missing is a Primary WINS server entry in the IP stack (or a master browser entry, but that's unreliable).  Unfortunately, I have not found an adequate solution.  Most of my clients are Win 2k users and I have found that if you assign a WINS entry to your Dial-up Internet Connection properties, the client does not acquire a DNS entry from the PPP server which breaks everything.  Does anyone know how to add a WINS server entry in the LMHOSTS file?  Better still, propagate an entry via dnsinfo.C.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:44 AM
To: FW-1 Users
Subject: [FW1] SecuRemote and Network Neighborhood

Hi all

Platform: Solaris 2.6, FW-1/VPN-1 SP2

Well, after my little scare yesterday with the dnsinfo.C, its all back on
track

Anyway, I have secure remote running, and I can NT domain logon, but when I
go to network neighborhood, I can only see my own host, not all the others
hosts in the same NT domain, but I can connect to shares on the `hidden`
hosts them if I use the netbios hostname

What am I missing here? I`m sure I`ve done everything that I should have, so
maybe I`m missing something fundamental about NT domain browsing. Any help
would be most gratefully received. Many thanks in advance.

--

Steve

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