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by mndthegap1

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i have a branch which is connected to my office via a vpn, everything is working correctly.
my problem is, one of the machines is suddenly comming up w/ the following error when tring to map a drive "THERE ARE NO LOGON SERVERS AVAILABLE TO SERVICE THAT REQUEST" now i check the msoft knowlege base and it only talks about a trusted domain, which doesnt apply since it is all one domain. i have tumbstoned here accounts in wins, ran jetpack and also put a static mapping for the pc in wins and it doesnt work. any ideas would be helpful the server is nt4 and the client is 2k-pro

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by kinetechs

The VPN client probably isn't getting the IPs of the the WINS server(s). Try hard coding the WINS servers' IP adresses on the VPN client connection. You may also want to use an LMHOSTS file in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc if the WINS stuff still doesn't work. There is a sample there called lmhosts.sam. Remove the .sam extension and edit the file in notepad. There are instructions in the file itself.

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~Sean

by dynamo2003

Check the throughput i.e. bandwidth and RPC failure. Also if there are network lapses causing the problem especially when connecting over the WAN. You can start by using trace route utility 'tracert ip address' from the command line therefore establishing where the connection breaks.

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