While i agree that NetBEUI is hideous, i think everyone is overlooking 
this statement:

 > The checkbox to use NetBIOS over TCP/IP doesn't exist in the advanced
 > configuration (WINS-tab) of the TCP/IP-Properties.

Does anyone know what that means?  Does this mean it's not available, or 
can't be enabled/disabled?

Peter, what happens when you do a 'net view \\server.ip.address'

James W. McKeand wrote:

>Peter Guhl wrote:
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>>Probably somebody asked before (sorry ...)
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>>Well, a customer wants to work from home during christmas holidays.
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>>have got a m0n0wall acting as PPTP-Server placing it's clients in
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>the
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>>same IP-range as the Server (samba). Unfortunately Windows 2000's
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>VPN
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>>client tells me that it can't bind NetBEUI to the VPN because it
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>can't
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>>negotiate the PPP control protocol (rough translation of the German
>>error message). The checkbox to use NetBIOS over TCP/IP doesn't
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>exist
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>>in the advanced configuration (WINS-tab) of the TCP/IP-Properties.
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>>Of course the Server is not visible in the Network neighbourhood
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>Are you able to connect? 
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>Once you connect, can you ping internal IPs? 
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>If you can ping, can you go to Start -> Run -> type "\\ <Server IP w/o
>Space>" and get a list of the shares on the Server? 
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>If you can then I would use a LMHOSTS file on the users machine to
>resolve NetBIOS names to IP. Take a look at MS KB article 314108 or
>180094 "How to Write an LMHOSTS File for Domain Validation and Other
>Name Resolution Issues" (Sorry for the assumed English-US version -
>hope you can find one in German...)
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>For XP Pro: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314108/EN-US/ 
>For 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180094/EN-US/ 
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>Also make sure the users home network is on a different subnet than
>the office network. 
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>>Do you know how I can make that work? What's faster - trying to make
>>NetBEUI work or switch to something like NFS?
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>Depends on your skill set... ;-)
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