Chris Buechler wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:21:49 +0100, Peter Guhl <pgnews at siconline dot ch> wrote:
> 
>>Well, a customer wants to work from home during christmas holidays. We
>>have got a m0n0wall acting as PPTP-Server placing it's clients in the
>>same IP-range as the Server (samba). Unfortunately Windows 2000's VPN
>>client tells me that it can't bind NetBEUI to the VPN because it can't
>>negotiate the PPP control protocol (rough translation of the German
>>error message). The checkbox to use NetBIOS over TCP/IP doesn't exist in
>>the advanced configuration (WINS-tab) of the TCP/IP-Properties.
>>
>>Of course the Server is not visible in the Network neighbourhood (not
>>really surprising after all...).
>>
>>Do you know how I can make that work? What's faster - trying to make
>>NetBEUI work or switch to something like NFS?
>>
> 
> 
> Eww, why NetBEUI?  I'm hoping you don't actually use that protocol and
> are misunderstanding its necessity.  Samba over TCP/IP should work
> fine.  Network neighborhood doesn't work (reliably, if at all) over
> PPTP because broadcasts don't traverse the connection.  You should be
> able to map drives or pull up \\servername or \\IP.address from Start,
> Run without modifying anything, assuming your Samba box works over
> TCP/IP.
> 
> -Chris

That is exactly what I do.  I just have a simple .bat file that I run 
once I connect to my company VPN.  It does all the drive mapping for me, 
as if I were at the office logging in locally.  From there, I can access 
all the usual things without any issues.