VPN File sharing / Workgroups

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Lectrician

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I have an office with two computers workgrouped with the name MShome. They are connected to a router with ADSL connection. They can share files/printers with ease.

I have my home with a Laptop and a PC workgrouped with the same name of MShome. These are also connected to an identical router with an ADSL connecion. These two can share their files/printers ease.

I have setup a VPN between the two routers, and this connection is working and active. I can ping all machines from anywhere.

I can use XP's remote access from one location to the other by entering the IP of the computer I want to access.

I use 192.168.2.x at home and 192.168.3.x at the office.

I can't figure out how to workgroup these two IP ranges so I can share the shared folders on the computers between locations, and share printers. I want all computers to appear in the same workgroup "MShome".

I cannot find much support when googling for it.

Hopefully someone here has some experience in this matter!!

Thanks!
 
Workgroup

you will need to join the workgroup again and then it wil pick it up.

file sharing accross aa standard adsl connection will be SLOW as it can get as the upload speeds are very low, i would only recomend it if you have at least 8meg up load and 8 meg down

you will also need to use the same dns server(your dns server is your router in most cases unless you have servers hanging around, so only pick one of the routers for ALL pcs) on all pcs otherwise the workgroup name wont be recognised
 
Thanks.

I only wanted something simple - setting up a wins server is taking things a little far for what I want to achieve at the moment.

I have it working now - netbios was not enabled on the routers.

I can now access shares using the IP rather than the computer name.

So, I can achieve what I want in a fashion. I can create shortcuts to \\192.168.2.x\shared etc.

Would be nice to have it appear in the MS networking bit, but if this means spending out on a server, then this is not going to happen any time soon!

Cheers for the reply!
 
DNS Error

All you needed to was make the DNS servers the same on both sides mate, so name resolution is correct, so all you needed to do was configure the secondary dns server to be the other router on the other side of the vpn

you did not require a server at all as your routers are already configured as a dns server!

just make all the computers use the same dns server( same router ip address)
 
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