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VPN/Cable Modem and Networking

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by jessica lynn

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Ok. Here's the situation. We currently are set up with a TCP/IP Windows NT network. Remote users use PPTP (VPN) on NT workstations to communicate with the office. Once the network authenticates the users, the DHCP server assigns them a network IP address. This works fine with dial-up accoutns.

Problem: I have a user that has signed up to get a cable modem. Normally not a big deal, most are plug and play. However, I have a user that's cable ISP wants the Domain field empty, however to log on to the network and authenticate the domain must be present.

Since the user is in the office 20% of the time, so removing the domain doesn't work.

Any ideas?

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by mishratron

I know Win 9x has a domain field in internet
explorer that does not have to be blank when vpn( i use a dsl modem and had to use this method when I had 9x)
right click on internet destroyer
go to connections in the dial up settings
go to the vpn dial up and tell it to log into the domain.

in windows 2k when you make a vpn dial up I believe there is a spot for you to check for domain
you will have to double check though

by ecng111

What I understand is Cable ISP want the Domain field empty is under DNS domain in Network properties not the NT domain. Because Cable ISP usually look at the host name to assign IP to the customer. The user still can keep NT domain and I don't see any conflict

by ted laun

I have has a similar situation at my company where a user takes their Laptop home they have a problem with their Cable Modem so the guy doing Tech Support for the cable modem has them remove their laptop from the domain which of course mens the users account is now not available they do this when the real problem is the cable companies network infrastruture

by vico

You are confusing the local logon to the ISP with the Dial-up VPN logon. You can configure the VPN dialup properties to logon to the domain.
Hope this helps.
I have a cable modem and I logon to the domain.

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