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by tomecole

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I have RAS set up on an NT4.0 SBS. I can call in from a WIN98 machine and make a connection. The RAS admin screen shows me as logged on, and the client sees the login as successful but I can not see the server or map a drive from the client. I canping the server name and tracert returns the server name. I have everything in the hosts file correctly. I have dial-in permissions and have tried both "Entire network" and "This machine only" settings. IP addresses are correct and domain names match. Any ideas ???

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by yisrael

I am having almost the exact same problem....
I've tried everything including poking a hole in my firewall. Am I doing anything wrong???

The setup is as follows:

-WINNT (not SBS) RAS Server
-Dial up Win98 TCP/IP Client
-I went so far as toremove all authentication requirements and included all text....

PLEASE HELP US!!!!

As far as I know there is no more....

by rsploss

I have also seen the same symptoms in my setup: NT4.0 running RAS, W98se client. When I dial in, I get authenticated and can ping the server, but Network Neighborhood shows nothing. I have written a batch file to map to the server using the IP address instead of the WINS/NetBEUI name, and that works fine. Exchange Server public folders are all available, and I can browse the 'Net through the Proxy Server connection. It appears that WINS is not able to resolve the NetBEUI name to the IP address. This would be extremely helpful for my network users, as IP addresses are a little too obscure for them to deal with. Any suggestions?

by yisrael

Can you send me the logon script you are talking about? I was able to ping the RAS server, tracert to the outside world through the RAS server, but unable to connect to any netbios UNC names and of course nothing shows up in network neighborhood. I checked the hosts file and I even checked the lmhosts file (which shouldn't matter for a 98 machine). This logon script will at least let me use some shares.

Thank you in advance. (Of course, if anyone has the full solution I'm sure we'd love it.)

by wpteh

Need more details on your setup :

1) Any WINS Server?
2) DHCP controlled?
3) Any shared out Folders from the RAS Server?

But meanwhile we can try installing NetBEUI protocol on both the RAS Server and Win98 client machine. But be reminded that NetBEUI should NOT be set the default protocol.

Good luck.

5mm.
Singapore.

by wcmii

I have experienced the same results with NT RAS. What I have found that will work is after doing what you have done and still can't see the server or it's shares, I have had to edit the "hosts.sam" file on the client machine to include the ip address and name of the server (c:\windows\hosts.sam). Rename the "hosts.sam" file to "hosts" and then reboot and dial back into your server.
If you still can't see the server or map a drive, goto dos and use the "net use" command to map a drive to the "ip" address of the server and a share. ie;

net use f: \\192.168.1.1\data

This seems to "kick start" the system and now all will work fine. I have no idea why this needs to be done, or what I am doing wrong (I'm all ears for suggestions!) butit seems to work for me. I have had to do this on 3 installations this last week.

Good Luck!

Bill

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