Guest Jasper Recto Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 I have a Cisco ASA firewall that allows me to VPN into our company domain. When I'm in the domain, I can ping any computer or connect to it through terminal server by using the computer IP address. Is there anything I can do so that I can connect to computer by its computer name? If I try to ping a computer name, the DNS can not resolve it. Is there a host file I can edit that can reference the computer name and it's corresponding IP address? I'm on Windows XP. Thanks, Jasper
Guest Robert L. \(MS-MVP\) Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 Re: Connecting to a server by name Talk to your administrator. If he adds the LAN DNS and WINS to the VPN server, you should be able to access the remote computers by name. This how to may help. How to setup VPN How many inbound dial-in connections are supported How to add DNS and WINS into your Cisco VPN server How to assign a static IP to VPN client ... http://www.howtonetworking.com/Windows/vpnsetup.htm -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Jasper Recto" <jrecto99@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ONHyBAy9IHA.4956@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I have a Cisco ASA firewall that allows me to VPN into our company domain. > > When I'm in the domain, I can ping any computer or connect to it through > terminal server by using the computer IP address. > > Is there anything I can do so that I can connect to computer by its > computer name? If I try to ping a computer name, the DNS can not resolve > it. Is there a host file I can edit that can reference the computer name > and it's corresponding IP address? > > I'm on Windows XP. > > Thanks, > Jasper >
Guest Spaceman Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 Re: Connecting to a server by name I have not used VPN in a while, but I think once connected you can ping names using ping computername (no \\ before the name) I am not sure if that is how it worked since it has been a long time since I have done such. Maybe? "Jasper Recto" <jrecto99@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ONHyBAy9IHA.4956@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I have a Cisco ASA firewall that allows me to VPN into our company domain. > > When I'm in the domain, I can ping any computer or connect to it through > terminal server by using the computer IP address. > > Is there anything I can do so that I can connect to computer by its > computer name? If I try to ping a computer name, the DNS can not resolve > it. Is there a host file I can edit that can reference the computer name > and it's corresponding IP address? > > I'm on Windows XP. > > Thanks, > Jasper >
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