VPN

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Mike

I have set up a VPN over the internet using Cisco PIX
firewalls. I can ping from the remote PC to the server
and back again using both IP address and netbios name.

However I am unable to logon to the Network or access any
of the shared drives.

I have set up WINS on the server but this only allowed
pinging with netbios name.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Regards
Mike
 
Hi, Mike -

Does the remote PC have a machine account on the domain?
The VPN client should pass user information to the domain
controller.

I'm a lot more familiar with Nokia Checkpoint than Cisco
VPN clients but I do know that since the VPN clients
don't actually do NT authentication (all they do is pass
a RADIUS ticket to the login server) login scripts won't
run.

What I do is create a shortcut to the login script and
place it on my desktop - you'll find it in
\\servername\netlogon

Then all you have to do is connect to the VPN and double-
click the shortcut to run the login script. Another
option is to map network drives manually - but I think
the shortcut to the login script works better for me.

Like I said, Cisco clients aren't my strong point,
though. If no one else here has an answer I'd suggest
looking to Cisco's support resources. Their VPN client
is pretty extensively documented.

Hope this helps -
 
Hi Allan,

Thanks for the assistance, the remote PC does have an
account on the server.

I think the problem may be with DNS, I get the error
message "The DNS servers used by this computer are not
responding" when trying to connect to the domain

Any further help would be appreciaed.

Regards

Mike
 
Hi again, Mike -

Just thinking out loud here - is your VPN client
assigning new DNS servers for the
connection? 'ipconfig /all' after connecting to the VPN
should tell you where you're getting name services from.

Might be time to talk to the network guys about the VPN.
Once you connect you should be able to hit the trusted
network's DNS servers.
 
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