RE: Users unable to access network share via vpn

Many thanks for your suggestions, I will look at the VPN settings. Although
the situation has improved the same problem has been occuring every now and
then.

"Uwe Stanislawski" wrote:

> If this problem appears together with VPN-connections then it might have
> something to do with the setup of your VPN.
>
> I had this problem with xp-clients accessing the headoffice via VPN. The
> connection slowed down within short but different times. Because MS has
> changed some algorithm within the GRE-protocol you have to change some
> settings on your VPN-Router/Server:
>
> Try to switch off the GRE-Window-Adaption and set the max size of the
> initial GRE-Send-Window to 256.
>
> Hope this will help!
> --
> Uwe Stanislawski
> CASKAN EDV
>
>
>
>
> "Adanali" schrieb:
>
> > Recently files/folders moved to W2003 server (from NT4 server). First couple
> > of days users were able to access the network drives on the server, then
> > users started only seeing files/folders which had been recently used and
> > synchronised (offline files is enabled). However, last few days they started
> > getting an error message saying either "(servername) is not available" or
> > "the network drive/resource is unavailable". I can ping the server ip address
> > & its netbios name from their computers (W2000 & WXP) and at times can see
> > the shares on the server and rarely I can access their drive too. With
> > continuous ping I can see that the connection times out as soon as I access
> > their folders; the connection is fine otherwise. We have quite a few servers
> > (NT4, W2000 & W2003) in a domain and a few sites connecting via VPN. There is
> > no problem accessing the server at the central office.
> > Boss is on away, probably sunbathing, and I am baffled.
.

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