Wins pointer?

External Since: Dec 20, 2006 Posts: 9

My Vpn has never worked. I can connect but cannot see
the shared folders on remote connection. I've already
enabled Netbios over TCP/IP on all machines but still
no folders in site.
Someone told me I needed to setup the Wins pointers.
I found the place to do this in properties but where does
one get the value of the pointers?

External Since: Nov 18, 2003 Posts: 582

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:23:43 -0400, "JG" <NoMail@NoSpam> wrote:

>My Vpn has never worked. I can connect but cannot see
>the shared folders on remote connection. I've already
>enabled Netbios over TCP/IP on all machines but still
>no folders in site.
> Someone told me I needed to setup the Wins pointers.
>I found the place to do this in properties but where does
>one get the value of the pointers?

Enable use of LMHOSTS file.

Then find out the ip address and name of the domain server on the remote
network.

Finally, add the appropriate domain server entries to your LMHOSTS file.
They'll look something like this:

123.456.789.53 corpdc1 #PRE #DOM:CORP
123.456.789.53 "CORP \0x1B" #PRE

where corpdc1 is the netbios name of the domain server
and CORP is the domain name.

/daytripper