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connect but nothing shows?

What is all this stuff about VPN. We've bought a router and client software all by Netgear. It handles our 12 node peer to peer LAN great and I can even get it to "connect" and ping from home with the client software, but it shows "nothing" in the explorer. No C drive no folders no nothing. I checked and all of our nodes at work have at least 5 folders that are shared, but nothing shows. I've asked Netgear but they don't know why we are having this problem. Is VPN still a long way from being a reality in most cases?

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JG
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Assuming your hosts are running MS Windows, the problem is that Windows uses netbios, a non-routable protocol, for p2p resource sharing. Netgear support should be able to tell you how to route netbios over tcp/ip through their equipment.

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Drake

and take a look at this. It has some relevant info about WINS and NetBIOS:

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Drake

Re Drake Thank you very much I will check this out.

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JG

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