[thelist] mapped drives over VPN (win2k)

[Chris W. Parker]

Joel Canfield <mailto:joel at spinhead.com> wrote:

> It really helps if your remote machine is in a workgroup or domain
> named the same as the network domain, and you're logged onto the
> remote machine with a username and password which are valid on the
> domain, but none of that should keep you from seeing the machine.

the username/pass i am using is valid and is of the network domain. i
don't get the rest of your paragraph. what's this with a computer
name/network with the same name as a domain? explain that please.

> Verify that you can see the machine in question first. If you can
> ping it and it has a share to which you have permissions, you should
> be able to connect.

permissions and security are not an issue yet since i cannot even see
the computers. and i cannot ping any other machines unless i add them
manually to the HOSTS.


what do you think?


chris.