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by nhoek

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I have a laptop that I used at our work and while I am on the road. I am having problems with being able to browse our network when I dial-up. I can not see any other Systems showing in the network neighbourhood. When I am in the office and logonin the regular mood I can see the entire network and all my drives map ok.

I can access my mail and I can ping our servers via their IP address and sometimes via name when I dial up. But my drives will not map nor can I map to anything.

Any ideas?

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by cpd202

Check with your sys admin to see if you've been given permission to access from outside the network.

by nhoek

that is already done. I CAN Log on to the network, I JUST can not browse it.

by mark

If your connecting to a NT domain you'll need to setup your notebook to log into the domain. In control panel double click on network. Double click on client for Microsoft network. Check box the logon to windows NT domain - put the domain name there. Make sure you change the network logon options to quick. Once that is done reboot. When you notebook comes up it will show your logon. Just click cancel there, then get into the VPN and it should pop up asking for your NT login again, this time putin your Domain password and you should then see your network and be able to browse / use shared resources.

by nhoek

I am already doing this, I can logon and connect via dial up to our network, I just can not see the other clients and get to any shares.

by rdbaird

Go to your network properties (right-click on net neighborhood) and look at the identification tab. Make sure the workgroup name listed here is the same as the domain you are logging on to. Sometimes a conflict here can cause you not to see your network properly.

by isys

You don't identify your OS, so it's either Winipcfg for 95/98/ME or IPconfig for NT/2000/XP. After you are attached to the network, run the appropriate executable and see if you have the correct DNS and/or WINS.

by timwalsh

Sounds like a WINS issue. Win 9x clients really need access to a WINS server to successfully browse the network. My guess would be that at work you are recieving the IP address of the WINS server through DHCP. However, when connecting via dial-up,the RAS server may not be using DHCP to assign IP addresses, but is instead using a separately assigned IP address pool defined on the RAS server. Thus it may not be properly passing on all necessary IP info. You can get around this buy manually inputting the IP address for the WINS server in the TCP/IP properties for your dial-up connection.

by timwalsh

Another thought / option:
If you mapped your drives using Network Neighborhood, the actual path is something along the lines of \\servername\sharename. For whatever reason, when attempting to reconnect those drives, your OS is unable to resolve the server name and thus gives you a path not found error. If you change those paths to \\serverIPaddress\sharename, you take one more potential problem area out of the equation.

by sprocket99

You need to make sure file and printer sharing is bound to the TCP/IP for the dial-up adapter you are using to connect to your server.

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