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This item is sold as a complete and easy VPN, however it is somewhat misleading as the Netgear Insight VPN does not do NETBIOS over VPN. This needs to be impletmented ASAP This has apparently...
Believe it or not, I was told to make this request by Netgear. Just goes to show.
In addition the BR500 is not a consumer Router, its classed as business grade. Accessing file shares using the IP address causes problems for the newer versions of Office as it claims that these files have been downloaded from the internet.
A VPN should be able to do Point to Point without any issues, and work arounds should not have to be used.
My primary site has a windows Server 2019 Essentials set-up running full A/D.
The layout is such
Netgear 4G Modem --> Netgear BR500 Router -->Netgear 24 Port PoE Swith -> Clients and Server
As the netgear 4G Modem is set up as a modem and not DHCP, the routing is done by the BR500
Surely someone on the remote site or using the client VPN should be able to connect and map to a network drive and resources without trying to remember IP Addtresses.
If the BR500 is not capable of doing this, it should not be sold as a VPN.
Anyone wish to make another suggestion for a VPN Router with licenses?