ok here is my situation.
I VPN to my workplace, the VPN is setup on Windows 2000 Server which is also acting as a proxy for the LAN. So I VPN to the LAN thru ServerA. then i run an application that resides on ServerB, this application makes use of a file server (ServerC). the application occasionaly will need to access ServerC to display certain documents, and that’s where i get “error 53: file not found”. The app on ServerB uses UNC paths to access the files on ServerC.
I made sure i can resolve names of all remote machines in the LAN including ServerC, so no DNS issue there. i also added my domain suffix to the connection properties.
i investigated a little and retrieved the UNC path the app was trying to access and it’s in this form, “\\ServerC\Folder1\Folder2\file.tif”
I tried accessing it , got an error “path not found”
tried accessing \\ServerC\folder1\folder2 got “drive is inaccessible”
then tried accessing \\ServerC\folder1 , i was prompted for username and password, although i clearly have rights to access the network resource.
I checked the permissions on the \\ServerC\fodler1 share and made sure that they are propagated to all child objects.
let me say again this issue is not present when using a machine on the LAN, only when i VPN in. the machine i use to VPN to the network is not a member of my company’s domain.
I have 2 users who work with VPN daily, and only one of them mentioned this issue. both of them are setup exactly the same.
I honestly don’t know what to do next to tackle this issue.
any help is appreciated.