Vista and a remote network
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:34 am
I have a Vista question for you all. I work at three different fire stations that are networked together via a L2TP VPN across the public internet. Each house has a network plan such as
192.168.1.XXX (server 2003 is located here with needed network drive.)
192.168.2.XXX
192.168.3.XXX
When I am the main station (192.168.1.XXX) my mapped network drive to the server works fine. It validates my saved password and then allows me access (I am the administrator of the domain).
When I move to any of the other station and my dynamically assigned address is on one of these networks I cannot connect to the networked drive. It tells me the computer name is not valid. I cannot make a new mapped drive. Not any way can I get to it.
The computer the drive is on is seen in network. In fact I cannot connect to any computers seen in the network that have a different IP structure. I am able to ping this server with the drive, and I am also able to remote desktop to it.
I have shut down Symantec 11 firewall and all accessories to it, including windows firewall. None of these changes help.
My old xp pro machine linked fine with all the other equipment, Vista here seems to be blocked. Again it works fine on the same network structure, just does not work when on a different structure. Works fine everywhere in XP, not Vista. Additionally I can see any resourse on any computer with the same ip structure, just not on the extended VPN network. This worked fine in XP Pro, I just got to try and find what is causing the block with XP. I have adjusted all the private and public network settings, all the file sharing, etc on the vista machine.
What am I missing? I can’t get my data when I need it and it is a little annoying.
Thanks again.
192.168.1.XXX (server 2003 is located here with needed network drive.)
192.168.2.XXX
192.168.3.XXX
When I am the main station (192.168.1.XXX) my mapped network drive to the server works fine. It validates my saved password and then allows me access (I am the administrator of the domain).
When I move to any of the other station and my dynamically assigned address is on one of these networks I cannot connect to the networked drive. It tells me the computer name is not valid. I cannot make a new mapped drive. Not any way can I get to it.
The computer the drive is on is seen in network. In fact I cannot connect to any computers seen in the network that have a different IP structure. I am able to ping this server with the drive, and I am also able to remote desktop to it.
I have shut down Symantec 11 firewall and all accessories to it, including windows firewall. None of these changes help.
My old xp pro machine linked fine with all the other equipment, Vista here seems to be blocked. Again it works fine on the same network structure, just does not work when on a different structure. Works fine everywhere in XP, not Vista. Additionally I can see any resourse on any computer with the same ip structure, just not on the extended VPN network. This worked fine in XP Pro, I just got to try and find what is causing the block with XP. I have adjusted all the private and public network settings, all the file sharing, etc on the vista machine.
What am I missing? I can’t get my data when I need it and it is a little annoying.
Thanks again.