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by dksells 2 views

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I know you see this a lot, but here goes anyway.
I'm connecting via vpn to a remote network router. I can ping ip addresses and host names behind the router. I cannot browse ANY resourses. When I try "net view \\hostname" from the command prompt, I get "error 53 network path not found" Does anyone have any ideas? I've been at this for days. If I don't figure it out, I'll have to go to plan 2. I'm too stuborn to go to plan 2. Help!

Thanks,

Keith

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by tig2

I need more information to ask a more sensible question.

What OS? Assumed- company network behind a firewall. Are you authenticating to the router or the server? If you are only at router level, you may not have authenticated to touch OS drives.

It sounds to me as if you are fine at the router and only get hosed at the network level. Could that be the issue?

by dksells

Everything to the router is fine. I'm having problems to points beyond.

by dksells

yes, this is a company network. Nothing elaborate, just a peer to peer. The router assigns non-routable ip for that network.

by tig2

May I assume that you are the test for VPN here?

If yes, open a SAFE share so that others have a way in.

Is this solution at "proof of concept"?

What is your foundational framework?

by jdclyde

It sounds like you want to access a shared directory or drive? Make a mapped drive, but use the IP address instead of the name.

\\10.1.2.100\files\

No, you will not be able to see network neighborhood over ANY WAN link.

So you CAN map drives over a wan, but it takes a lot of network overhead.

If your sharing files, ftp is a better route.

If I misunderstood what your trying to do, say so and will look at other possibilities.

Good luck

by dksells

This is the first time I'v used a router as a vpn endpoint. Live and learn.

I used "net use" from command to map a drive.
Worked like a charm.

Thanks for the help!

by jdclyde

You get the same thing on WAN connections, as that is all a VPN connection is, just using a different medium and software.

And doesn't matter WHAT your using for the VPN, you will get the same results. The protocols eat up a lot of bandwidth, so it is by design to NOT forward it over WAN connections.

Take care.

by georgeou

Try to see if port 139 is open by using "telnet IP-address-of-server 139". You're not actually telneting there, you're just probing to see if TCP 139 is open or not. If it is, you will see the screen blank out in a command prompt. If it is blocked it will tell you that it can't open. If you don't get a blank screen then either something is blocking you or the machine you're trying to get to doesn't have sharing turned on.

by jdclyde

I ran into this two weeks ago. Needed to have a user setup a mapped drive, so I tried to walk him through it over the phone to save myself a three hour drive to setup a mapped drive.

Kept getting "network could not be found". [i](are you SURE your typing this correctly?!?!)[/i]

I get over there and the (L)user had gone into his system and disabled almost every single service on the system. :0

Not sure why this (L)user had Admin rights, but believe me after I one at a friggen time turned everything back on, he didn't.

Users turning on a firewall will also cause the same problems.

by nowikn

Be sure that "File and Print Sharing" is allowed if the Windows Firewall is turned on . . . will save a lot of headaches.

by nowikn

Keith, have you tried creating a HOSTS file and placing on the PC/laptop that's using VPN?

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