What? Nobody can help me?

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Peter L

This is my third post to what I think should be a simple
problem. That problem is this, I can connect remotely
through a VPN from my laptop to my home network. I can
ping every computer on my network successfully. What I
can't do is look at the folders and files that I have set
up to share. I am behind a dlink router, but I have to
think that if I have been able to get in to establish a
connection, it isn't a problem getting through the
firewall. I am thinking that it has something to do with
the way I have set up the permissions on the share on the
computer I established my connection on. If anyone has any
suggestions I would certainly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Peter
 
on your TCP/IP properties for the client machine do you have
Client for Microsoft Networks and File and Printer sharing for Microsoft
networks checked?
can you ping the name or only the ip?
have you got the hosts file set up correctly with the server names?

I had similar problems and putting all these right seemed to solve it.
HTH
 
This is my third post to what I think should be a simple
problem. That problem is this, I can connect remotely
through a VPN from my laptop to my home network. I can
ping every computer on my network successfully. What I
can't do is look at the folders and files that I have set
up to share. I am behind a dlink router, but I have to
think that if I have been able to get in to establish a
connection, it isn't a problem getting through the
firewall. I am thinking that it has something to do with
the way I have set up the permissions on the share on the
computer I established my connection on. If anyone has any
suggestions I would certainly appreciate it.
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What command are you using to MAP to the share?

try NET USE H: \\ipaddress\sharename

You also need to have the same user name and password on both computers.

This only works if you have file and printer services installed at both
ends. Also, without a hosts file (or DNS / Wins server) you will not be
able to map to shares using the computer host name.
 
Check the hosts file, if this has the correct entries you should be
able to see the folders.
 
This is my third post to what I think should be a simple
problem. That problem is this, I can connect remotely
through a VPN from my laptop to my home network. I can
ping every computer on my network successfully. What I
can't do is look at the folders and files that I have set
up to share. I am behind a dlink router, but I have to
think that if I have been able to get in to establish a
connection, it isn't a problem getting through the
firewall. I am thinking that it has something to do with
the way I have set up the permissions on the share on the
computer I established my connection on. If anyone has any
suggestions I would certainly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Peter
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When using your laptop, are you on a LAN? If so does it use the same
subnet as your home network?

Mike
 
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