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IP only works when connected to VPN

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by whowasthat25 1 view

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Hi,
I connect to the VPN from home. i then try to connect back to our fileserver and only the IP address will work, and not \\server.

i cant think of why this is happening, so i asked around, and others are having the same problem.

any ideas?

thanks

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by bapster

I don't believe that netbios names are routable. you could use WINS or create a host file which would match hostname/IP so you could access by name.

by whowasthat25

any reason that it worked before and not now? i cant think of what could of changed that would cause this

by cg it

to search by name, there has to be a mechanism to convert the name to an address. As the previous poster mentioned, WINS server or a LM Hosts file can do this. DNS is also a method.

by whowasthat25

so when im connected to the VPN, should my VPN adapter be pointing to my office DNS server or my router?

thanks

by cg it

All depends on how remote access clients obtain a local address and where the remote access clients connect.

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