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    • Cry HavokC
      Cry Havok
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      And what are you using for the VPN?

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        afvadmin
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        the ip of the vpn is 192.168.200.0

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          afvadmin
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          ok so what i needed was to bridge the connections of the vpn to the lan or create a wins server , went with bridging since it is better for most programs, so now i can access shares on the network and i have read access but i dont have write access eg a zipped file will copy to the mapped drive and it will take like forever to unzip

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            BrianBonnell
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            Enable NETBIOs on the VPN connections. I did this and now I can access my entire domain.

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              afvadmin
              last edited by

              ok ill try this today sorry about taking so long to answer have been really tied up in work and school, ok well my vpn is bridged

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                afvadmin
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                ok still cant access im trying to run a program of the server i have the access to view the shared folder but jus cant run the program i even installed the program pointed it to the ip address of the server so it would get its data from the server and the program fails to run as a matter a fact i cant even install a program from the network share do you think this is a windows server problem or it just cant be fixed cause open vpn stats for certain programs you either have to build a samba or wins server or bridge the connection and i went with bridging an still cant get through i even entered custom options so that the vpn connection would have an ip just like the domain is there any setting i overlooked or anything on my dns server i have to do

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                • Cry HavokC
                  Cry Havok
                  last edited by

                  Can you:

                  a) See the share from the VPN?
                  b) Connect to the share from the VPN?
                  c) See the contents of files on the share from the VPN?
                  d)
                    1) Ping the server from the LAN?
                    2) Ping the server from the VPN?

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                    afvadmin
                    last edited by

                    Can you:

                    a) See the share from the VPN?
                    yes

                    b) Connect to the share from the VPN?
                    yes i mapped a drive

                    c) See the contents of files on the share from the VPN?
                    yes i can copy files from the shared folder

                    d)
                     1) Ping the server from the LAN?
                    yes

                    2) Ping the server from the VPN?
                    yes

                    only thing is cant run a program from the vpn and cant copy to the vpn i think ill give the authentication in open vpn with the ldap service

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                    • Cry HavokC
                      Cry Havok
                      last edited by

                      When you say "to the vpn" - exactly what do you mean?  You've already said you can connect to, and use, shares at the far end of the VPN so there's no obvious problem.

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                        afvadmin
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                        what i mean is if i copy a file the the vpn i usually get an error ill try it again to give you the exact code i had it written down somewhere

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                        • Cry HavokC
                          Cry Havok
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                          Sounds like a file/share permissions error on the server - nothing to do with the VPN since you can copy files off of the share.

                          Are you authenticating to the file server?

                          Does it work, copying a file to the file server, from the local network?

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                            afvadmin
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                            honestly i dont think im authenticating i tried to get the authentication going with the ldap authentication post but it may be my pfsense version is to old cause i cant add the needed packages

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                            • Cry HavokC
                              Cry Havok
                              last edited by

                              No, not authentication to pfSense, authentication to the file server - the 2 are completely unrelated.

                              When you connect to the file server, do you have to specify a username and password?

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                                afvadmin
                                last edited by

                                im on a domain, and i am the administrator i can simply browse the network, if i use an alternate user on the computer which is not on the domain then it does ask for user name and password

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                                • Cry HavokC
                                  Cry Havok
                                  last edited by

                                  And from the VPN?

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                                    afvadmin
                                    last edited by

                                    that is from the vpn what i described is when im connected to the vpn i think there should be some integration from open vpn on the firewall to the dns server on my network which is not taking place so that it can be added to the user under policies almost like routing and remote acess

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                                    • Cry HavokC
                                      Cry Havok
                                      last edited by

                                      To be blunt, I think you need to bring in somebody with more experience than you have.  If DNS didn't work then you wouldn't be able to map the share.  From what you've said it all sounds like an authentication problem.  When you map the share across the VPN:

                                      a) Is the remote device on the domain?
                                      b) Are you providing a username and password?

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