"GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@IEE.ORGasm> wrote in message
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> Good Morning,
> I have to admit to being totally out of my depth and in dire need of
> assistance.
> I have a small local net, mainly running XP SP3, with one oddment running
> Ubuntu.
> The Ubuntu is used as a mail server and filestore.
> I want to be able to access this filestore remotely. To this end I
> purchased an ADSL (wireless) router which has native VPN capability.
> Thinking that would give me secure connectivity to my net. I think it does
> but too secure! I can connect remotely to the router it seems but no
> further.
> I was expecting to be able the invoke network neighbourhood after
> connecting and then be able to browse the various shares on my local net,
> but sadly, that is not the case.
> Could you tell me please, what should I have done, and what I could do now
> to get it going? I'm not too bothered about the Ubuntu, I'm pretty sure it
> could be persuaded to conform to the Windows environment if I could
> successfully get through to that.
> Thank You.
>
> --
> Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could remember
> the darn question
>

"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" <findem***@chicagotech.net> wrote in message
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> To browse network over VPN, it is better to have a WINS server. In
> your case, you may want to create a batch file to map all shared
> drives. Or this search result may help.
>
> vpn browsing issuesHow to browse via incoming connection. Issue with
> browsing server over VPN. Unable to access the resources on the
> network. Unable to browse through PPTP/VPN ...
>      www.chicagotech.net/vpnbrowsingissues.htm
>
>
> --
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
> http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
> http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@IEE.ORGasm> wrote in message
> news:ulHKdhBaJHA.1964@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Good Morning,
>> I have to admit to being totally out of my depth and in dire need of
>> assistance.
>> I have a small local net, mainly running XP SP3, with one oddment
>> running Ubuntu.
>> The Ubuntu is used as a mail server and filestore.
>> I want to be able to access this filestore remotely. To this end I
>> purchased an ADSL (wireless) router which has native VPN capability.
>> Thinking that would give me secure connectivity to my net. I think it
>> does but too secure! I can connect remotely to the router it seems
>> but no further.
>> I was expecting to be able the invoke network neighbourhood after
>> connecting and then be able to browse the various shares on my local
>> net, but sadly, that is not the case.
>> Could you tell me please, what should I have done, and what I could
>> do now to get it going? I'm not too bothered about the Ubuntu, I'm
>> pretty sure it could be persuaded to conform to the Windows
>> environment if I could successfully get through to that.
>> Thank You.
>>
>> --
>> Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could
>> remember the darn question
>>
>

"GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@IEE.ORGasm> wrote in message
news:ulHKdhBaJHA.1964@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Good Morning,
> I have to admit to being totally out of my depth and in dire need of
> assistance.
> I have a small local net, mainly running XP SP3, with one oddment running
> Ubuntu.
> The Ubuntu is used as a mail server and filestore.
> I want to be able to access this filestore remotely. To this end I
> purchased an ADSL (wireless) router which has native VPN capability.
> Thinking that would give me secure connectivity to my net. I think it does
> but too secure! I can connect remotely to the router it seems but no
> further.
> I was expecting to be able the invoke network neighbourhood after
> connecting and then be able to browse the various shares on my local net,
> but sadly, that is not the case.
> Could you tell me please, what should I have done, and what I could do now
> to get it going? I'm not too bothered about the Ubuntu, I'm pretty sure it
> could be persuaded to conform to the Windows environment if I could
> successfully get through to that.
> Thank You.
>
> --
> Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could remember
> the darn question
>

"GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@IEE.ORGasm> wrote in message
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>
> "Jack (MVP-Networking)." <j***@discussiongroup.com> wrote in message
> news:eANpHqGaJHA.4852@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi
>> VPN capability can mean VPN pass through, which actually means that it
>> would allow VPN through but would not do any thing VPN wise.
>> Or VPN End Point, which means that the Router actually have a sort of VPN
>> server build in.
>> Depending on what you have the Network need to be configured to deal with
>> VPM too.
>> http://www.ezlan.net/vpn.html
>> Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)
>
> It would seem my Router implements a VPN End point, I can find nothing in
> my documentation suggesting it performs 'pass through' and connecting and
> nothing else suggests 'end point' to me. I'll check with my tame? support
> person, Monday.
> Assuming 'End point' what form of configuration would I need to apply to
> the network?
> 'pass through' is easier to understand, and if I could drive Linux
> properly/at all, easier to implement.
> I had spent some time previously attempting to configure the Ubuntu
> machine to handle a VPN, before I discovered the Router I was using then
> didn't speak VPN at all, hence purchasing the current beast, thinking it
> handled all to do with VPN natively. Sadly not the case.
>
> --
> Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could remember
> the darn question
>