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My solution, on a small SOHO LAN, is to use a host file on my remote PC to map IP addresses to a -- Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the mutual benefit of all of us... > We've recently rolled out Windows XP SP2 to our remote users and have enabled the XP Firewall on > We are now experiencing problems wherein users can't access PC's on the remote domain by name, > Is there a way to add an exception to the firewall to allow these lookups? File and Print Sharing > I'm a little baffled as why this setup doesn't work, but would be grateful for any advice from > Regards, > Richard Tubb.
name. Note this is a work group environment. Hopefully one of the other MVPs or another
knowledgeable person can be of further assistance...
Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights...
> Hi,
> all network connections, including the VPN connection to the main office.
> only by IP address, when connected via VPN. Turning off the XP Firewall for the VPN immediately
> solves this problem - so the issue appears to be with DNS lookup through the XP Firewall.
> is enabled on all Firewall entries and incoming ICMP exceptions are enabled.
> somebody with more experience of Firewalls! Am I wrong to try and firewall the VPN connection in
> the first place?
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