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RAS Problems with NT 4.0 Workstation

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by srobertson

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I'm trying to establish a RAS connection between 2 NT 4.0 workstations. One is my Desktop (To be the HOST) and the other is a Thinkpad that I carry around with me.

The workstations are both Lan connected and I can shared files when physically connected but not when remote. All I really wantis to access to files on my desktop hard drive the laptops only got 2Gig capacity and the deskops got 13Gig.

The modems acknowledge & connect fine. The Laptop get's an IP address for DHCP the logon's and permissions are correctly set yet RAS won't start.

Microsft's help is not.

Is their a trick to this that I'm missing

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by ian mclaws

What do you mean by "RAS won't start"? RAS - remote access service must be started if the modems are connecting; its the service that manages them. I assume you mean that you are unable to access files on the desktop.
Given proper permissions, as you say, you should check the server service on the desktop to make sure that it is started. I have encountered a system that would host a connection through RAS, yet didn't have a started server service, which made any access impossible. If the service is started, you should enable RAS logging on the desktop, and check the log...has helped me in the past. If this doesn't help, a little more info on what is failing would narrow things down.

Good luck,

Ian

by srobertson

Thank's for the response, Yes the Server Service has started and I cant access any resources. I also can't Ping the "server" so I don't think the second answer will help either.

What I really wanted was aplain english exlanation on how to get theconnection to work. I think I've decided to give it up as a bad idea.

by ahartman

I think I know what your problem is. You can connect but you can't access your files or shares or see the computer in network neighborhood. Can you ping the other computer. If so then this is what you need to do. Make sure the NT workstation youare dialing into has the username in usermanager with the right to log on locally. Also set up a lmhost file. This will map the IP address to the netbios name. Here is a copy of our lmhost file. Copy the file to c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc folder. Drop out to a command promt and run the command nbtstat -R. This will reload the netbios naming cash on your machine. Make sure the R is capitalized. Here is the file to copy.

102.54.94.97 ccs1 #PRE #DOM:ccs
102.54.94.102 ccs2 #PRE #DOM:ccs
102.54.94.117 ccs3 #PRE #DOM:ccs

This will map the coputer name to the ipadress so you can access you shares.

by srobertson

Thank's for the response, Yes the Server Service has started and I cant access any resources. I also can't Ping the "server" so I don't think the second answer will help either.

What I really wanted was aplain english exlanation on how to get theconnection to work. I think I've decided to give it up as a bad idea.

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