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by p.muller

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I have set up a test WINDOWS 2000 server. SP4.. I set up RRAS (VPN) using a single network card. AD is also installed on this server and I added some users (and activated Dial-In). On one win XP SP1 laptop I set up a VPN connection to the server (in house) and tried it... works fine. Then I used the remote desktop client.. and it worked fine too.

I then tried this same scenario with another win XP SP1 laptop... the vpn tunnel works (map drives copy data etc) but when I try to connect with the remote desktop client, I get the message 'The client could not connect to the remote computer....' (there is more to this message but you get the drift).

I then repeated the experiment from outside the office as well. (I installed a suitable router).. connected the VPN using the same laptop that worked when in the office and then used the remote desktop client... worked fine.. Then I hooked up the other laptop... I could establish a VPN tunnel... (map drives etc) but I get the same error message namely "the client could not connect to the remote computer"....

I have spent hours on this one and cant seem to track it down, why does it work on one laptop.. but not on the other one (I use the same userid etc on both machines).. can anyone help?

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by willcomp

In the words of ex-President Clinton; "I feel your pain."

I had 5 identical client PCs to be used for remote access to Win2K terminal services. All had XP Pro installed and configured identically (clean installs from CD). 4 of the 5 connected without any problems. Could not get the other one to connect to terminal server no matter what I tried.

Solution was to re-install XP. Worked fine after that.

Hope someone has a less drastic solution.

Dalton

by p.muller

Thanks for the response. I beleive I have fixed this. My problem was that I was trying to open a VPN tunnel from a workstation on the LAN (which worked) I then tried to open a TS session.. which worked as well. However when I tried to do this from a second workstation it failed. The problem lies in my attempt to open a second VPN tunnel to the same server from two different workstations. Whilst a nice idea, it wont work! Apparantly routers get messged up if you try to create multiple tunnels to the same destination server over the same router. The solution is to simply offer TS - and add a site to site VPN if required.

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