got VPN, but cant see the network, please help

[JCROCCO]

I have installed VPN from home to work. It is working, have connection to my router at work.

Thats all I got. How do i get access to the network files and folders?

 

[bobcpg]

did you try typing the ip address in the address bar of the computer you want to connect to.

or

try: goto run and type "\\ip-address" and see if that works.

 

[JCROCCO]

yes, said it couldnt find it.

The VPN connection finds it, I need to access it thru the VPN, even if I gave you the address, it would not connect via internet. When I go to look at workgroup, it only shows the local workgroup, even tho the 2 workgroups are the same.

 

[bobcpg]

I have this same setup. Connecting to my work router through VPN. Then i just type in the ip address of the computer i want to connect to, like mention before.

The only problem i ever had was that i was using the same ip scheme at home as i was at work.
ie) all my home computers we on the 192.168.1.* addresses and so were the computers at work.

so when i typed in \\192.168.1.100 say when i was connected VPN, it had problems deciding what address to pull up(the home one or the work one). That lead to timeouts and it didn't work.

Then i changed my home scheme to 192.168.3.* and it works great now.

 

[Pex]

i had this problem and solved it by:


1.) changing my domain at home to my domain at work.
2.) mapping.

 

[JCROCCO]

what is meant by "Domain"

AS I said, I do have the VPN tunnel set up.

Now if I was to type in 100.100.100.9 say to get to that computer on the network, will it show it to me?

Why doesnt it show up in "my computer" or under "my workgroup" I have the same workgroup name.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: JCROCCO
what is meant by "Domain"

AS I said, I do have the VPN tunnel set up.

Now if I was to type in 100.100.100.9 say to get to that computer on the network, will it show it to me?

Why doesnt it show up in "my computer" or under "my workgroup" I have the same workgroup name.

because netbios is not set to traverse the vpn

 

[ToxicWaste]

First, all this assumes we are talking about a Windows network.

Okay, can you ping a machine at work once you are connected with the VPN? If you can, then you just need to setup an lmhosts file that will map the computer names of the machines you need to connect to with an ip address.

You'll find a sample in (assuming WinXP):

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts.sam

(If Win2K replace WINDOWS with WINNT)

Edit that file and save it as "lmhosts" no .sam, or .txt, etc.

There are still lots of reasons things could be failing, don't know enough about your network...

Oh, and \\IP-Address will not work, Windows only works with computer names.