Morning, all.
We are having a problem with users unable to access SAMBA shares when using VPN. I am sharing directories on our 2 HP Unix boxes (HP-UX 10.20) using SAMBA 2.0.7. Locally connected users can open the shares quite happily, but anyone connecting through VPN (including me) is faced with "\\hp-cad is not accessible. The network name cannot be found." We have been using both the Intel and Cisco VPN clients with the same result. This problem has been with our facilities management provider for several weeks with no result.
Anyone have any ideas ???
Here's something to try.
Use the IP address of the server instead of the name (\\1.1.1.1 instead of \\hp-cad). If that doesn't work, make sure that you can ping it. If you can ping it but can't connect, then it's probably something with the way that the VPN is set up. Perhaps it is set to only pass certain ports.
If you can connect using the IP address, then it means that Windows can't resolve the name. Windows uses broadcasts, among other techniques, to figure out what IP addresses go with what names for the file sharing, and I bet that the VPN is set up to not pass those. If the remote network has a WINS server, you should be able to change your TCP/IP settings (this may be in the configuration for the VPN client) to point at that server. Another option, suggested by James Kennedy, would be to add it to the lmhosts file. And, of course, use the IP address instead of the machine name.
-- Dave Kimmel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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