From: nsp@nitrosyncretic.kom   
      
   spam@spam.com (Bob) wrote:   
   >> Unless I'm looking at something kompletely different, My XP Pro   
   >> workstation, my Win2K workstation and my Win2KAS server all have the   
   >> NetBIOS option on the WINS page.   
      
   > You are looking at the wrong page. Look at the page associated with   
   > the VPN Client, not the Local Area Connection. The VPN Client does   
   > have NetBIOS in Win2K.   
   >   
   > If your Win2K VPN Client has NetBIOS, I would like to see a   
   > screenshot. If I showed you a screenshot of my Win2K VPN Client TCP/IP   
   > WINS page, it would show the bottom half empty.   
      
   Okay. I'm not looking at my MS VPN clients - I don't see any use for them   
   with a router-to-router tunnel. I was looking at the TCP/IP network   
   configuration pages.   
      
   > I am only discussing NetBIOS name resolution in a peer-to-peer   
   > (Workgroup) network.   
      
   Okay... What I'm trying to enable (as are, apparently, a lot of other   
   folks in this and other forums) is NetBIOS access across the VPN tunnel.   
   I've read a number of how-tos and such and all seem to be concerned with   
   problems I don't have (varying software clients, dynamic IP addresses,   
   large user numbers).   
      
   If there's a simple, straightforward way for my system to use NetBIOS   
   names and access across a working hardware VPN tunnel, I would appreciate   
   pointers to it. I can access the far server as 192.168.1.100 (and have   
   applications working with it on that layer); I want to access it as   
   \\FOOBAR so I can share drive space and let other, non-IP-aware apps use   
   functions there. It appears that I need DNS/WINS resolution at some   
   point, but I've never had to mess with that level of nameserver   
   configuration and consequently am a bit lost.   
      
   But hey, I've gotten this far, at least. :)   
      
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