Unable to access folders with RV082 QuickVPN

[Yee Choong Chai]

I have an office peer-to-peer network (win 7) connected with a QNAP NAS and a RV082 router. There is no proper naming (I don't know how to implement it) so everything is access via IP.

I managed to configure my RV082 to accept VPN connection from home via QuickVPN with cert etc and managed to ping all the running devices in the office, i.e. printers, nas, etc after connected with the office network.

However, when I try to browse the NAS say run "\\192.168.1.5\", it says "The network path was not found". But I could ping the IP just fine but not the name, I'm not sure if adding it into my lmhost will help.

I'm wondering if any of these has anything to do with my VPN settings? or is it my horrible network setup that is giving me the trouble. I also noticed that if i'm not on the same workgroup, when I try to browse office workgroup from Explorer/ Entire Network it will say "workgroup not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource..................."

Is this more of a Windows than my VPN issue? do I need other protocols besides TCP/IP such as NWlink netbios. I only have client for microsoft network, file sharing and tcp/ip running.

[mpyhala]

Hi Yee,

Thank you for posting. Are you able to access shares on \\192.168.1.5 locally? If you can access the shares when you are onsite you should be able to access them using QuickVPN as well. You are correct that if you add the hostnames to the LMHosts file you will be able to access by name.

This sounds like an issue with the NAS itself. You can check this by trying to access a shared folder on a PC. You may need to disable any antivirus or firewall software on that PC before you can access shared folders.

Please keep us updated.

[Yee Choong Chai]

You are right. #$%^&*() I locked myself out of the NAS by only allowing office IP range. Thought through VPN I would have been assigned a "local" IP. Now that I can access my NAS is it possible to access the printer as well?

[mpyhala]

You should be able to access everything on the LAN. Can you ping the IP address of the printer?