Re: VPN & Mapped drives

Hi Ben,

They were just imaged using Ghost. I've run Sysprep on one of them now, and
I won't be able to see if that makes any difference until Monday, when I can
get back into the business to join it on the domain again.

I have configured the DNS & WINS settings for the server in the Netscreen
firewall, so I believe that's alright, which tends to be backed up by the
fact that one of the laptops works as expected. Also, when I login with the
other computers their info gets picked up by the WINS server, so there's
definite communication going on.

Hopefully it's something related to the image that Sysprep will have reset.

Brent

"Ben" <bjblackmore@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ehGBFzE7FHA.3440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> How did you image them? Something like riprep will remove all the SIDs and
> specific name information from the image, so it shouldn't cause a problem.
> Sound more like a DNS issue. Why can't you add the DNS server IP to the
> VPN connection settings? That's how we do it, and drives map with out a
> problem. (although access is a little slow, but I don't think this is down
> to DNS).
>
> Ben
>
>
> "k1w1" <kiw120012001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eCPHudC7FHA.2012@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Slightly off topic, as it's not involving ISA...
>>
>> Here's the brief summary: Server 2003, 4 HP laptops, setup from an image.
>> Firewall/VPN is a Netscreen, client compters are using the netscreen
>> client software to connect the vpn. Laptops running XP Pro.
>>
>> Laptops are joined to a domain, with mapped drives. What I want to be
>> able to do is access the drives when connected via the vpn, outside of
>> the office, obviously.
>>
>> I've been playing around on one of the laptops and got it to work.
>> Configuring a WINS server seemed to do the trick. I'd also added entries
>> to the LMHOSTS file. This computer has no trouble accessing the drives.
>> It's reproducable, everytime. Doing what I did to that laptop, doesn't
>> work on the other 3! At this point I'm really confused. If I set the DNS
>> entry to point to the server, then they do work, but this obviously
>> causes other issues.
>>
>> Any thoughts as to what's going on? Maybe something to do with them being
>> imaged?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>
>


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