| sytelus@yahoo.com 2004-12-09, 2:45 am |
| Here's whats going on: When you get connected to remote network via
VPN, you are assigned an IP address by remote network. This lets the
remote network perceive you as a computer "inside" its own network.
When you try to access any IP address thats in range of remote network,
your VPN connection tunnels your request to remote network. However the
names of computers on your remote network are actually NetBIOS names.
Unfortunetely it looks like stupid VPN connection doesn't register
those names with you and so you can't find them whatever you do.
However, if you know their IP address you can sure connect to them and
here's one way to easily do it: Usually, IP addresses in office network
are like 192.168.1.* where ^= 0 to 255. Sometimes its also like
192.168.0.*. You can find this out by double clicking VPN network icon
and see your own assigned address. Ofcourse, you don't have time to try
each and every IP address in this range to find the computer you want
to connect, but you use the IP scanner utility like Angry IP Scanner
(http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/). This cool program will show you
all active computers in any IP range and ALSO their network names and
ASLO who is logged on it and so on - in just matter of seconds! So find
the computer you need to connect and just type
\\192.168.0_or.1.(fill_in)\share. If its secured share you will be
prompted for password using standard Windows password dialog where you
can use the one with domain assigned to you in your remote network.
File shares in VPN connection is really a bummer. It could have been
easier by just letting you browse network after you get connected.
Anyways...
One more tip: If VPN connection is slow and if you want to copy
something huge, try mapping network share to drive and use this XCOPY
command. Its faster and more reliable. Also if connection drops, run
this command again, it will avoid re-copying files already been copied
successfully and save tons of time.
REM Copy even if errors, only new files, with attributes, overrite,
include system files
xcopy %1 %2 /E /C /Q /H /R /K /Y /D
Have fun.
Shital.
http://www.ShitalShah.com
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