No access to network shares over VPN from Vista

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Dear experts


I have a problem accessing any network shares from "outside the LAN" "Windos
Server 2003"-systems with a "Windows Vista"-system:

Detailed description:
I have a LAN behind a ADSL-Router and in this LAN there are
Vista-Vista-WS1: A Windows Vista Business Edition x64 (English)(current
patch level)
Vista-WS2: A Windows Vista Business Edition x86 (German)(current
patch level)
Vista-WS3: A Windows Vista Business Edition x86 (English)(current
patch level) in a Virtual Machine
XP-WS: A Windows XP Professional Edition x86
(English)(current patch level)
Srv-LAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
level) in a Virtual Machine
The Windows Server is configured as domain
controller, VPN-Server, DNS-Server, File-Server

I have a workplace environment in another site which can be accessed over
VPN:
DC-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
level) as Domain Controller
Exchange-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch level) as
Exchange Server
FS-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
level) as File Server
VPN-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
level) as VPN-Server
Web-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
level) as Web-Server

Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS
can successfully connect over VPN with Srv-LAN and can
successfully map any share from Srv-LAN
Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS can successfully connect over VPN
with VPN-WAN
Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS can successfully connect with the
Exchange Server Exchange-WAN
Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS can successfully connect with the Web
Server Web-WAN
Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3 always fail to map any share from FS-WAN
XP-WS can successfully map any share from FS-WAN


Error messages:
c:\> net use x: \\<fqdn>\share
"System error 1214 has occured. The format of the specified network name is
invalid."
c:\> net use x: \\<NetBIOS-Name>\share
"System error 53 has occured. The network path was not found."
c:\> net use x: \\<IP-address>\share
"System error 53 has occured. The network path was not found."


Any ideas?
Thanks for your support in advance!

Dear regards and a happy new year... :-)




Robert Fischer
 
Sorry for wrong "From" and bad formatting!
I try it once again!

Robert Fischer
 
No ideas, I'm afraid, but you are not alone. Many others experience the
same. Search this NG for my enquiry into the same problem.
 
Hello Stuart

Thanks for your suggestion but k899148 doesn´t solve the problem:
I´m working with static packet filters (netsh ipsec static) and I´ve opened
all ports on the filesserver FS-WAN for the VPN-Server VPN-WAN.
The local Server Srv-LAN has the same packet filter configuration ref. VPN.
All Vista Workstations located as domain members in my workplace environment
don´t have any problems and they find exactly the same opened ports!

I´m looking forward to find a solution...
Best regards


Robert
 
Hello Stuart

Thanks for your response!
No way, it doesn´t work!
I´ve decided to use a Microsoft support incident; I will let you know about
the results...
Best regards


Robert
 
Hello Admins

For security reasons I had disabled NetBIOS in the TCP/IP settings on all
servers.
Windows Vista can´t handle this!
With NetBIOS enabled, everthing works properly!
Very special thanks to Mr. Aslaner from Microsoft for supporting me with
this problem!
Best regards


Robert Fischer
 
Hello Admins

Windows Vista requires an open port 139 and NetBIOS enabled on the server to map a server share through a VPN connection - very poor for security!!!
But Microsoft is goin´ to fix that problem, they confirmed!
Best regards

Robert
 
Robert,

I am in the same boat as you are with this problem.

However, I enabled NetBIOS on the server (Windows Server 2003 R2 x64
Enterprise Edition).

I also opened TCP Port 139 and UDP Port 139 on the server but I still
receive the following error:

Windows Cannot Access \\10.x.y.z\d$

Error code: 0x80070035
The network path was not found.

Mike
 
Robert said:
Hello Admins

Windows Vista requires an open port 139 and NetBIOS enabled on the
server to map a server share through a VPN connection - very poor for
security!!!
But Microsoft is goin´ to fix that problem, they confirmed!
Best regards

Robert
Click to expand...

ehrm, the port 139 has to be open on the public ip of the remote server,
eventho one is in a different private network when using vpn? did i get
that right? i sure hope NOT!

- thomas
 
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