Hamachi not seeing any shares but local ones.

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I have Hamachi installed on computer1 on LANa. I also installed it on
computer2 on LANB, located elsewhere on the Internet. I can connect
both to my network. I can see folders that are shared on both computer1
and computer2. However, I cannot see any other computers or shares on
LANa from LANb or vice-verse. I think I missed a step somewhere but
cannot find it, or this is a limitation. I was expecting to see all the
network resources on LANa when I connected to it from LANb.

Did I miss something?

-Jim
 
jtpryan said:
I have Hamachi installed on computer1 on LANa. I also installed it on
computer2 on LANB, located elsewhere on the Internet. I can connect
both to my network. I can see folders that are shared on both computer1
and computer2. However, I cannot see any other computers or shares on
LANa from LANb or vice-verse. I think I missed a step somewhere but
cannot find it, or this is a limitation. I was expecting to see all the
network resources on LANa when I connected to it from LANb.

Did I miss something?

-Jim
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Hamachi sets up a VPN (Virtual Private Network) between the machines. This
gives any machine on *that* network access to the shares of the machines on
*that* network. If you want to be able to access any network resources on
LANa from the machine on LANb, you would need to map those resources on
computer1 and then share them. For example:
computer1 on LANa has //server/accounting as a share
on computer1 map //server/accounting to drive S:
share S:
then on computer2 on LANb (through Hamachi) you will see S: as a shared
resource from computer1 on LANa.
You can do the same thing for printers etc. any resources that are shared.
 
Nill said:
Hamachi sets up a VPN (Virtual Private Network) between the machines. This
gives any machine on *that* network access to the shares of the machines on
*that* network. If you want to be able to access any network resources on
LANa from the machine on LANb, you would need to map those resources on
computer1 and then share them. For example:
computer1 on LANa has //server/accounting as a share
on computer1 map //server/accounting to drive S:
share S:
then on computer2 on LANb (through Hamachi) you will see S: as a shared
resource from computer1 on LANa.
You can do the same thing for printers etc. any resources that are shared.
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OK, I see what your saying. So, am I barking up the wrong tree by
thinking that if I had a "typical" VPN set up between two networks I
would be able to see all the resources on each without doing this, or
is this just peculiar to Hamachi?

For example, one of the things I thought would be cool is to be able to
set up the VPN between the two sites so I could remotely manage all the
machines on the other network via Remote Desktop. But it looks like
the only way to do this is with sort of a "double hop", connect to the
one machine and run remote desktop from there.

I always thought a VPN was where you could remotely connect to a
network, and once the pipe was open, work on it like you were there.
Based on that, Hamachi is not really VPN.

-Jim
 
I can't speak to Hamachi but certainly with OpenVPN, SSH or my current PPTP
VPN tunnel into my home LAN I can do that, ie. access any PC with Remote
Desktop (RDP) through the tunnel. Its quite easy to do...

Here is a SSH method that you may be interested in...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/RemoteDesktopSSH.html

SSL-Explorer is another option that you might look at. It includes built-in
support for RDP. It worked very well when I used it in the past...

http://3sp.com/showSslExplorer.do

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I have Hamachi installed on computer1 on LANa. I also installed it on
computer2 on LANB, located elsewhere on the Internet. I can connect
both to my network. I can see folders that are shared on both computer1
and computer2. However, I cannot see any other computers or shares on
LANa from LANb or vice-verse. I think I missed a step somewhere but
cannot find it, or this is a limitation. I was expecting to see all the
network resources on LANa when I connected to it from LANb.

Did I miss something?
Click to expand...

Doesn't sound like it. What you are describing is exactly what I would
expect. Only those computers in the virtual network can see each other.
You're not connecting to LANa from a computer on LANb, you're connecting
two computers to their own virtual LAN (LANc, if you will); other resources
on either network are not involved in any way. I wouldn't call it a
limitation, as it is by-design.
 
Yea, Hamachi just connects those two computers running hamachi together over
a virtual 5.x.x.x lan. Using OpenVPN in the gateway mode will do what
you're wanting to do, it's quite a bit more involved to set up though.
Hamachi was meant to be "configure free" and simple to setup. One thing
you can try though is to add the appropriate routes to both of the computers
running hamachi if you're comfortable playing around with that. If you
want computer1 on LANa to be able to access other computers on LANb through
the computer2's hamachi network then you need to add that route to computer1
that tells it "in order to get to the LANb computers, use the hamachi
5.x.x.x ip of computer2 as it's gateway." The only problem is that you
basically have to be able to add the correct routes to each computer on both
lans in order to get 2-way traffic routed correctly between the two lans,
which sometimes isn't all that practical.

Not sure of your setup but you could also look into using some 3rd party
router firmware to be your OpenVPN server. I run DD-WRT on my buffalo
router at home and there's a version of that firmware with a builtin OpenVPN
server. All I did was create the necessary keys and certs, copied some
code to the router's startup command line and now I can connect to my home
network and it looks like my laptop is just another computer on the LAN,
plus I don't have to have a desktop constantly running. And I can
configure OpenVPN to work over any port and use UDP or TCP. Hamachi works
well but if you're behind certain types of routers or in a really
restrictive network (school, work) then even it may not work. I've set
mine sot hat I can pretty much get to it from anywhere.
 
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