Crash when browsing network drive over VPN

From: Onno Broekmans (Broekmans_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 07:10:01 -0800

Hi all,

On a Windows XP Pro SP2 computer, I tried various times to do the following:
1) Connect to a VPN. This seemed to work perfectly.
2) Map a network drive by right-clicking on "My Computer", choosing "Map
network drive...", filling in as the folder "\\xx.xxx.xxx.xx\some folder"
(with xx.xxxx.xxx.xx the IP address of the computer on the network I wanted
to access) and using different credentials (specifying a username and
password manually).
3) An Explorer window opened, allowing me to browse the network drive.
4) After entering a folder containing a few executables, I tried selecting
one by single, left-clicking on it.
5) The computer went bananas: though XP is normally really stable here,
Explorer just stopped responding completely; nothing helped (trying to log
out, Ctrl+Alt+Del, waiting ten minutes); I was forced to use the Power button
:-(
6) This happens all the time...

Does anyone have any experience with this kind of problems?
Thanks a lot in advance!

Yours sincerely,

Onno Broekmans

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