Netbios with VPN

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Does anyone know why Netbios needs to be installed on some Windows XP machines and not others to access resources thru a VPN set up on a windows 2000 server?
 
Did you mean to say Netbeui? Netbios (over TCP/IP) is already there.

It should all work without Netbeui if your DNS and/or WINS is working
properly and you have a domain set up. It is tricky with workgroups.

Mussman said:
Does anyone know why Netbios needs to be installed on some Windows XP
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machines and not others to access resources thru a VPN set up on a windows
2000 server?
 
Thanks for the reply Bill,
I recently had a problem with accessing resources on my windows 2000 server thru a VPN with XP Machines. When I installed NWLink IPX/SPX/Netbios on the Local area connection Ethernet adapter it solved my problem. I was just curious as why the VPN was working without it for months
Thanks
 
I would say it had been working through Netbios over TCP/IP. Why this
stopped working and needed IPX is a different matter!

Mussman said:
Thanks for the reply Bill,
I recently had a problem with accessing resources on my
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windows 2000 server thru a VPN with XP Machines. When I installed NWLink
IPX/SPX/Netbios on the Local area connection Ethernet adapter it solved my
problem. I was just curious as why the VPN was working without it for
months.
 
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