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Setting up VPN in Windows 2000

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by nekronn99 1 view

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I have two clients, both of whom are running Windows 2000 Pro on Pentium machines (P2 or better). Both machines have ISP connections installed and have NIC cards that are configured to connect to the LAN/domain when they are in the office. We wantthem to be able to connect via VPN from remote sites. We set up VPN connections. When the users try to connect to our domain from a remote site they appear to be verified, but when they attempt to browse the domain all they can see is their local machine. The domain they are trying to connect to is NT 4.0, with an NT DNS server whose address is correctly setup in the VPN's TCP/IP properties. The users have their domain logins setup on the local machine and should have all rights to the network. We have no RAS or VPN server per se; instead connection requests are filtered at the router. What are we missing? Thanks.

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by guidos

Take a look at the Properties/Networking tab for your VPN connection and make sure the Microsoft client is installed...then uncheck any protocols that aren't used such as NETBEUI, etc. Just a thought, hope it helps...:-)

by nekronn99

MS client is installed, and there are no other protocols installed other than TCP/IP. Thanks anyway.

by gwnfld

I don't think it's important that you see all the server in the domain. If the users can map a drive and access the resources within the domain that should be enough, unless it's some big shot that has nothing better to do than ask why can't they see the servers.

by nekronn99

The point is that the machine trying to connect via VPN cannot see any machines on the local network, nor map any network drives. Thanks anyway.

by shepster

You say that you have no VPN server per se and that requests are filtered at the router. What are you using to establish the PPTP session? Where is it getting it's account information? Do you have a firewall? If so, is it in front of or behind the router? When your users connect to the extent they can, does IPCONFIG show them having an IP internal to your network? Can they ping an internal IP? A netbios name? A FQDN? I have gone through this a couple times and hopefully can get you fixed with a little more data.

by nekronn99

We figured it out-- the client needed the network WINS server IP address info. Thanks anyway.

by nekronn99

We figured it out-- the client needed the network WINS server IP address info. Thanks anyway.

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