Hi I have a Windows 2008 R2 server with RRAS. Its also my DHCP, WINS and DNS Server. With any notebooks which are part of the domain, when I connect to the VPN, all the network shares are available via their UNC paths as normal. With my Windows 7 Ultimate machine at home, which has never been part of a domain, I can ping all the servers ok, by name, but I cant browse any of the server shares. The PPP adapter seems to have NetBios over TCPIP disabled, I dont know how to fix this.... see below: Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : cjdesktop Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : siag.local jameson.local PPP adapter SIAG VPN Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : siag.local Description . . . . . . . . . . . : SIAG VPN Connection Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.3.3.131(Preferred) Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.3.2.2 10.3.2.4 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : jameson.local Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 802.11n Wireless LAN Card Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-05-B4-07-A9-1D DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::5ad:e83c:ae68:d663%13(Preferred) IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 80.1.1.103(Preferred) Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, 11 January 2011 9:22:31 PM Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, 13 January 2011 9:22:34 PM Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 80.1.1.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 80.1.1.1 DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 318768564 DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-13-13-F4-E6-6C-F0-49-55-43-58 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 80.1.1.1 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 6C-F0-49-55-43-58 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes How can I fix this, so that I can browse the file shares on my company network server, when connected via VPN? Thanks Chris.

Hi Chris, Although you are using VPN to load the IP and DNS server properly, your account is not the domain account and the ports which are associated with file sharing will be blocked. The issue is related to server. Please post a new thread in our Server Forum. Here is a similar case: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/fac821a3-f42e-4555-9682-e972d7ec89bd Hope it helps. Regards, SimidaPlease remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi Chris, Although you are using VPN to load the IP and DNS server properly, your account is not the domain account and the ports which are associated with file sharing will be blocked. The issue is related to server. Please post a new thread in our Server Forum. Here is a similar case: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/fac821a3-f42e-4555-9682-e972d7ec89bd Hope it helps. Regards, SimidaPlease remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi Chris, Although you are using VPN to load the IP and DNS server properly, your account is not the domain account and the ports which are associated with file sharing will be blocked. The issue is related to server. Please post a new thread in our Server Forum. Here is a similar case: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/fac821a3-f42e-4555-9682-e972d7ec89bd Hope it helps. Regards, SimidaPlease remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

No, I don't think so. You still have to authenticate to the RRAS with your domain account. I will post again on the server forum. But I still believe this is a Win 7 client issue. XP Clients configured identically work perfectly fine. Chris

Hi Chris, Would you please let me know if you tired suggestion on the following thread? If not, please refer it to check the necessary ports. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/fac821a3-f42e-4555-9682-e972d7ec89bd I understand that you created a new thread on Server forum, please understand that to avoid confusion, we suggest working on one thread each time. Given this situation, please let me know if we can close it and reopen it when there is any update from Server side? Regards, NikiPlease remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi Niki, I'm not going through a firewall as such. I go through our router, which has NAT port forwarding for port 1723 and GRE to the RRAS on the other side. So there are no ports to open, and surely the Netbios traffic I need should all be encapsulated inside the VPN tunnel, so the regular ports would not be involved? Chris

Additional Information - In the event log on my Win7 machine: NetBT Event ID 4311 Initialization failed because the driver device could not be created. Use the string "000000000100320000000000D71000C011010000010000C005000000000000000000000000000000" to identify the interface for which initialization failed. It represents the MAC address of the failed interface or the Globally Unique Interface Identifier (GUID) if NetBT was unable to map from GUID to MAC address. If neither the MAC address nor the GUID were available, the string represents a cluster device name.