Re: cant acces drives over VPN, with my ususal credentials

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From: greenbay (greenbay_at_telia.com)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:38:33 GMT

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:31:05 -0400, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote:

>Not sure if this is relevant, but I think you'll need to use an LMHOSTS file
>instead of HOSTS -
>
>See http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;180094
>
>Note - the padding spaces for the domain name (0x1b) entry are very
>important - be sure not to miscount!
>
>For more info, see
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;150800
>
>Also - is your computer a member of the domain, or not?
>
>greenbay wrote:
>> We use VPN to our office. We got no DNS, WINS or other TCP settings
>> from the VPN gateway. So I put these settings in my hosts file.
>>
>> When I try to map a drive that is on our fileserver it ask me for my
>> credentials, I try to write them( eg domain\name) but the windows
>> prompt me that it already tried to log in with these credentials and i
>> doesnt work. I then try another login name and i works fine. This is
>> the same with other that try to log on, and when they been prompt to
>> use another username and password, they can use my credentials with no
>> problem.
>>
>> The VPN is a Netscreen, servers are W2k and client XP pro. The
>> accounts are domain users on the domain.
>

I will look into this, thank. The computer is a member of the domain.

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