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by darkman

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I make a VPN connection to my network from a windows 95 laptop to Win2k server running PPTP. I can map my network drives but I cannot connect to my exchange server when I open my Outlook client. It times out after showing message "connecting to exchange server"

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by joseph moore

I take it you are mapping drives to shares on machines OTHER than the VPN server? So, that would show that you are getting past the VPN server and browsing your network.

So, perhaps it is only a name resolution problem connecting to the Exchange server?
Try putting in a IP address to machine name definition in the HOSTS and LMHOSTS files. It could not hurt!

Both files should be in the C:\Windows folder (for Win9x).

The syntax of the LMHOSTS file is:
199.199.199.1 ComputerName #PRE #DOM:DomainName
where you replace your Exchange server's IP with teh sample one above, etc.

HOSTS file is simpler, just IP address and machine name:
199.199.199.1 ComputerName

Here is a Technet article on LMHOSTS:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q180094
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And try this Technet article on Windows name resolution:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q172218
(please remove any spaces)

hope this helps

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