Windows 98 RRAS to Windows 2000

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Folks I am stuck...

I have a windows 98 machine that is in a workgroup that is
named the same as a Win2k domain I am trying to dial into.

I have managed to get the 98 PC to dial up and login
sucessfully into the Win2k RRAS server and therefore
authenticate the user account on the domain.

The 98 PC has an account in AD as well as a user in AD
obviously.

The problem is I can't see any resources on the Win2k
Domain e.g. the Terminal Services server that hosts the
application I want to get to. I can't ping or see any
resources on the Win2k domain.....suggestions?
 
Can you ping the server by its IP address? If not, you have a routing
problem.

If you can, you probably have a name resolution/browsing problem.

How do LAN machines resolve names? Are you running DNS and/or WINS on
the LAN?
 
Thanks for the reply..

I think you are right with routing being the problem...I
can't ping the server by its IP address when dialed up
with 98.

I use static IP addresses and DNS on the LAN, but I can
dial in using the same method with an XP or 2000 machine
and don't have this problem? It's just Win98...?
 
If you can ping by IP, the routing is OK. That is all that IP routing
can do for you.

W98 works very differently from W2k/XP. It is more dependent on Netbios
names, while the later OSs are happy with DNS. Does the W98 machine have the
AD client installed? (Remote machines can access the server without it, but
it might make it easier to find the server by its DNS name).

To "see" LAN machines by name you may need to add an LMHOSTS file to the
client with entries for the LAN servers you want to contact (so that the
client can resolve names to IP addresses).
 
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