Vista VPN Connection problem to SBS2003

[ben]

Hi,

Our SBS2003 server is set up for VPN and this works perfect with the
Windows XP laptops. We now added 2 Vista systems. The connection works
ok and we can log in, but for some reason the DNS order that is
assigned is swapped around. The public DNS is assigned as first DNS
and the internal DNS as second. On the XP systems, with the same
configuration, this is not the case.

The result is that we can browse all network computers by IP number
but not by their name, because of the internal DNS being the second
one.

I tried assigning the DNS'es manually but this doesn't seem to work
either. I then get 4 DNS'es assigned, still the external DNS in first
place.

Is there a way to solve this?

Kind regards.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Hi,

Our SBS2003 server is set up for VPN and this works perfect with the
Windows XP laptops. We now added 2 Vista systems. The connection works
ok and we can log in, but for some reason the DNS order that is
assigned is swapped around. The public DNS is assigned as first DNS
and the internal DNS as second. On the XP systems, with the same
configuration, this is not the case.

The result is that we can browse all network computers by IP number
but not by their name, because of the internal DNS being the second
one.

I tried assigning the DNS'es manually but this doesn't seem to work
either. I then get 4 DNS'es assigned, still the external DNS in first
place.

Is there a way to solve this?

Kind regards.

There shouldn't be a public DNS assigned by a SBS server. The only DNS
server in a SBS network should be the SBS server. It should forward requests
for public IP's to the ISP's DNS servers.