Hey all!
Okay, so I have a few VPNs that I connect to on occasion. There are a few interesting issues that I’ve come across with one in particular.
1. On one VPN connection, I can access machines that are on the remote network by their IP address but not by their DNS name.If I remote desktop into a machine that is on the remote network, DNS resolves nicely and I can ping my computer. An ipconfig /all reveals that the PPP adapter for the VPN has set me up with the correct DNS server on the remote network. Yet, on a different VPN connection I can access machines by both IP and DNS addresses. The client configuration on my end is the same for both VPNs.
2. I can ping a remote machine and remote desktop to it via the IP address but if I try to connect to it via a UNC path using the same IP, I get a “Windows cannot access \\[IP Address]\ Error code 0x80070035: The network path was not found” error. If I remote desktop into a computer on the remote LAN, I can UNC to my heart’s content, including UNCing back across the VPN to my client machine.
Both of these things only occur on one VPN connection. Another VPN connection behaves quite nicely. Seems rather odd to me. It’s not confined to DNS, because UNCing to IPs is munged as well. What am I missing?
Thanks,
