VPN client connects but cannot ping/map drives

Hi

I know this has been discussed widely ... but im begging for your help
here since nothing that i saw seemed to fix my problem.

I have setup VPN on a W2K server at work which has a domain. The
server's local ip address is 192.168.1.251 and i've set the VPN to give
ip adresses from 192.168.1.50 to 192.168.1.59 when someone connects.

I have first tried connecting from PC-Home. (cable modem connection
behind netgear router) It worked great at first time and i was able to
surf web, ping computers and map drives ...

Then i tried from someone else's house (in France!!!) (which has DSL
behind Linksys BEFSR41 router). He connects to the VPN just fine. He
can also surf web. However, he cannnot map drive or ping any other
computers (the serveur or PC-Home) on the network. When trying from DOS
cmd, i get error 53 (network host not found). I also tried making the
mapping from the IP adress instead of hostname and i didnt work either
(in fact, he can't even ping the server's ip hosting the shared drives
while all other clients can). I have made sure the client for MS
network is checked and that its using netbios.

Any suggestion are welcome here as it's driving me crazy (been working
on this for several hours).

Thanks a lot

François

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