Re: VPN & Win XP Home

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From: Rob Cullen (rcullen_at_curchodandco(dontspam).com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:14:11 +0100

Thanks for the thoughts,

 I was able to use my Win XP home PC once for this, before I had to reload
it after a hard disk died. Since then it won't play. If you wern't
supposed to use VPN on XP home, I would have thought by now there would be
an easily identifiable KB article or something.

For reference I cannot even get the home XP PC to operate properly when it
is connected directly to the ADSL router, attached to the office network.
Set the XP PC with a fixed IP addy in the correct range for the ADSL router
and SBS server NIC. The Server NIC obviously plugs into the ADSL router
too. Again it authenticates the VPN to the server, but wont let me view the
server's contents or the office network behind. This rules out anything
internet based being at fault. The only stuff running on the server is
SBS2K, fully patched (as far as I can tell), and Panda Antivirus. The
server is 2 NIC based, and presumably as a laptop with Win XP Pro on it
albeit one that is part of the office network, can use VPN from outside, it
suggests the basic VPN and remote networking configuration of he server is
correct?

Rob Cullen

"David Elders" <david_elders@hotmail.com.nospam> wrote in message
news:OZwdRiVoEHA.3464@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Could it be anything to do with XP Home not being able to properly
> authenticate to a domain? Just a thought...
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> David
>
>
>
> "Rob Cullen" <rcullen@curchodandco(dontspam).com> wrote in message
> news:%23fLmsdNoEHA.3896@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >I can get my Win XP (SP2) Home desktop to authenticate onto my SBS2K
server
> > via VPN, but I can't do anything with it. For example the simple run
> > command \\servername just gets a response of "the network path was not
> > found". Indeed altough authenticated nothing can then be done with it.
> >
> > However my laptop, which runs Win XP Pro but which is also part of the
> > domain of the SBS network, from home via VPN using the same internet
> > connection as the home desktop will both authenticate and run the
> > \\servername command shows a list of folders, which can be accessed.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas where it's wrong? Both VPN connections are set up
> > using the wizards and both have identical settings.
> >
> >
>
>

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