Background:
I have several clients running Windows 2000 on their laptops, they are connecting in through a SafeNet/Cisco PIX VPN Tunnel. I have configured an lmhost file for all static addressed machine on the network since for some crazy reason WINS acts funny over the tunnel.
Problem:
Although they can see and or ping machines in the lmhost file accessing the shares on those machines requires a logon. (In Windows98 and NT this logon was not needed the user information that you used to logon to the machine was passed for NetBios share authentication). After the logon all is well, but what I need is to not have the logon appear as it disrupt the Internal web server’s link and shares.
FYI:
I perfectly well know that this is a security feature. And I also know that there are several workarounds like logon on to the web server via the NetBios shares and then access it, or to change the web servers links to accommodate for the lack of NetBios share cacheing going on here. I’m notlazy its just each one of those solutions has a draw back.