Weird Vpn Issue

[Dan]

If i vpn in from my house to work using a domain admin account, once
connected i run the command net use w: \\server\share and the drive maps
fine. But if i go to my other office and try to VPN in to work using the
same account when i run the command to map the drive i get this error "The
password or user name is invalid for \\server\share and it asks me to type
in a password but even if i type in the correct pw it says Login failure.

Any suggestions on why this is happening.

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

When you put in the username try in this form domain\accountname then the
password.

 

[Dan]

Same error message. I dont understand why it works in one place and not the
other. Could it be something in the firewall that needs to be configured?

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

Certainly could be a firewall issue. What OS are these computers running?

 

[Dan]

Windows 2000. What i did was run the net use command with the username and
password in the command and that works so i will close this issue out. If
you can think of a reason that would be causing this issue please reply to
this.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

Another problem can be if you have any drive mappings on that local box. You
can use net use * /delete to remove these and try again. I have seen this
cause this issue before.