[vpn-help] Shrew disables NetBIOS on NIC when VPN connects

[David A. Esquivel]

NetBIOS is not the only thing it disables.  It also resets the DNS servers to "acquire automatically".  I've posted this as a bug on the developer list already.  At the very least, it's an oversight.  In my case I have a very specific DNS configuration that I want my mobile users to have.  But when they connect to the VPN it gets replaced with whatever the default local wireless settings are.  The workaround that I had to do was to write a batch file using a series of netsh commands to put it back the way I want it.  The same will probably work in your case.  The downside is that the user must remember to run the batch file after they connect.

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Subject: Re: [vpn-help] Shrew disables NetBIOS on NIC when VPN connects

On 09/30/2012 12:34 PM, Brandon Docke wrote:
>
> I was troubleshooting a problem where the 2 users randomly lost the ability
> to browse the Network via GUI in Explorer, in Windows 7 64bit. So far I have
> found that whenever I connect the VPN it disables NetBIOS over TCP/IP on the
> network card. Without NetBIOS enabled the Windows 7 64bit PC, the user
> cannot browse the Network through Windows Explorer.
>
> It does not look like any services are disabled/stopped when this happens.
> Only the actual setting under WINS when you check the NIC settings.
>
> What causes ShrewSoft to disable the NetBIOS over TCP/IP on the network
> card?
>

Hi Brandon,

Did you by any chance disable WINS in the VPN Site Configuration?  Does 
that maybe push a NetBIOS disable back down to the network adapter used 
to carry the tunnel traffic?
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