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SonicWall VPN with NetWare

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by gustavo_betancourt

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I have a SonicWall Pro Firewall appliance that has VPN capabilities. I am on a NetWare 5.1 environment. I am testing the VPN functionality of the SonicWall in my environment. I setup the VPN on the firewall, exported the settings, installed the client on a laptop, imported the settings, and tested it. The VPN works well. I am able to get inside my network and communicate with different devices and tools via IP. In order to log-in to the NetWare services, I had to edit the hosts file on the Windows 2000 workstation and make an entry for each one of my seven servers. After that I was able to log in and work with all but one of my servers. I looked at the hosts files and the entry is set up right, DNS is working because it resolves the name when I try to ping the server, I tried pinging the server using the IP address instead and that did not work either, I checked IP communications on the server and it seems to be working great. When not using VPN, the computer logs in fine to the NetWare environment. Is there anything that I am missing? Please help.

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by pgm554

Make sure ports 427 for udp and tcp aren't being filtered . You need SLP over the VPN in order to work right.Do you have a DA set up on any of the
NW 5X servers?If so,make sure it set up correctly on the so that the NWserver point to the DA to register their services.

by gustavo_betancourt

Thank you for your suggestions. However, I do have SLP enabled and it seems to be working fine since I can see 6 of my seven servers over VPN. Also, when I type Display SLPDA on the server in question, it gives me the right information and when I type display SLP Services on that server as well as on the DA server, it shows the right information for all of the servers in my tree. Any other suggestions?

by pgm554

(I tried pinging the server using the IP address instead and that did not work either)

Let me get this right , you can ping the server by dns host name ,but not by ip address?And this is through the VPN?
But ,if your not on the vpn , you can ping by host name and ip address?

by gustavo_betancourt

When I am logged into my network via VPN, I cannot ping that server either via the host name nor the IP address. I can ping the rest of my servers, however, using either the host name or the IP address. If I am logged into my network internally, without using VPN, I can ping every server, including the one that I cannot ping via VPN, using either the host name or ip address. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

by pgm554

Sounds like a routing issue.Have you tried a tracert to the file server in question when logged into the VPN?

by pgm554

If you don't have a route to the fileserver , you may have to put in a static entry.Also check your inetcfg on the fileserver that has issues for a static route to your gateway . No entry -no ping.

by gustavo_betancourt

THANK YOU !!!! I placed a static route on that server and it worked this time. I still don't know why it works on the other servers without a static route, but that's OK, as long as it works.

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