VPN and XP Home Edition

[dougickes]

I just recently installed a Cisco 3005 Series VPN. We currently have an NT domain at my main office. I use Windows XP Home edition at my home. I can connect to my office network thru the VPN tunnel. I can ping the machines on my office network. My problem is when I open up network neighborhood there is nothing there. Also when I use VNC, I have to put in an IP address instead of a machine name. We use WINS on our NT domain. Can anyone please help. Thanks.

[steve.barlow]

On the VPN concentrator, under the users group, general tab, did you enable WINS and DNS? If no, add them (with server IPs) - this will enable WINS and DNS and will send this info (ie WINS server IP) to client.

Hope it helps.

Steve

[brent_wethington]

One problem you might have is that Windows XP home edition can not participate in a domain. It is for workgroups only. Try the suggestion for configuring WINS in the TCP/IP properties, but if that doesn't work, you will have to use find machines by ip addresses.

[jwanker]

also, what version of the client are you running? i had similar issues with the 3.5.3 and the 3.6 client with dsn. when i upgraded to the 3.6.1 client, the issues were gone.

[mark-neil]

Believe that you have not set up your WINS and DNS servers on the 3005 concentrator. The context on the concentrator is: Configuration | User Management | Groups. You should simply need to configure the General and IPSEC tabs.

[rnockowitz]

our firm uses cisco 3015, nt doman and i use xp home edition at my home.. works fine.. including network neighborhood browsing and unc maps..

here's how we do it:

[on vpn concentrator]

group conguration (general tab) contains primary and secondary wins server ip addresses

user name and password combination same as nt domain user account (cisco vpn client passes username/pass to nt token)

[on xp home workstation]

on "control panel", "system" properties, "computer name" tab - workgroup name same as nt domain name

lmhosts file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ folder (should be same as the one on the pdc - if not, it must contain the pdc info for the nt domain)

tcp/ip properties "advanced" settings, "wins" tab - enable lmhosts lookup

that should do it.. like i indicated, mine works fine, with netbios name resolution - hope this helps

rob

[cforadas]

Try changing the workgroup name on your home PC to match your office network's domain name. That has worked for me in the past.