Another VPN question

[Schoolies]

I have a Windows 2000 DC server setup with Routing and Remote Access.

On my remote machine I can connect successfully to the server and I can ping the server and the client computers but I can not access the machines by name, such as \\imgserver.

Something with the DNS is apparently screwed up but I'm not sure if I have this setup correctly. Here is the quick network diagram.


Server with RRAS:
IP: 192.168.1.1
Gateway: 192.168.1.254

Remote computer:
IP: 192.168.10.100
Gateway: 192.168.10.1

When I connect to the server from the remote machine, it's IP address is 192.168.1.126. It says the Server IP is 192.168.1.123. I'm not sure where to go from here.

Help. Thanks

 

[Schoolies]

On the remote machine when connected, I can go to Start - Run and enter the IP address of the computers and it asks for a username and password. I enter the username and password but it does not accept it. I've tried both "domain\username", "username@domain.com" but it does not accept it.

The remote machine is connected to a different domain from the the local server.

 

[blemoine]

you need to have a WINS server. set both machines to use the WINS server and then you can use the "friendly" name in your unc path to access the server.

 

[ktwebb]

DNS should take care of this but WINS couldn't hurt. You could also edit your hosts file on that machine although anything more than a few entries is generally prohibitive from an administration standpoint and if the remote clients are DHCP further complicates things.

Saving that, just use the IP of the remote since it sounds like you know it. \\192.168.1.44 or whatever.