[MLUG - DISCUSSION] reaching network drives through VPN under XP Pro virtualized by Parallels on Mac OS X?

[Scott Hussey]

On Nov 14, 2007 7:18 PM, Jonathan King <jonathan.w.king at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2007 10:03 PM, Jerry Gamblin <jerry.gamblin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Have you tried just typing in \\secretserver\kingjo$ in the run window
> > to see if you can just connect that way?
>
> Good idea, but I just tried it, and it doesn't work. Murmph.

It may be name resolution. If you are relying on NetBIOS broadcast, it
doesn't work over some VPN connections. I think WINS works everywhere,
but I'm not sure. If you know the IP of secretserver, you can try that
to see if you can connect to the server itself via NetBIOS.
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