Accessing Win2K server from remote site

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Dan

I have a Windows 2000 server at main2. User a remote site
wants access the server but is receiving "..will accept
remote connections".

User at remote site is separated by a router onsite, a
router at main1, and a router at main2. The user can see
the remote domain name, see the server name, see a share,
but cannot access the c$ or d$ on the server and the share
that the user can see empty.

The user is logged into a laptop a the remote site as a
user that exsists on the Windows 2000 server domain. The
remote user can ping the server's IP address.

Is RAS needed to resolve this error she is getting at the
remote site?
 
It is nearly indecipherable what you user's problem is.

Please be clear and explicit in your error messages (and
from where and when you receive them.)
I have a Windows 2000 server at main2. User a remote site
wants access the server but is receiving "..will accept
remote connections".
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"Wants access", what kind of access? File share, email, terminal services?
What program are you using Explorer for file share access?

Try the command line (net use) as a more explicit and definitive
troubleshooting
step -- it also allows easy cut and past of result to post here for better
help.
User at remote site is separated by a router onsite, a
router at main1, and a router at main2. The user can see
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Routers don't usually matter for IP traffic UNLESS they are "filtering"
certain
protocols (some form of firewalling) or NAT (address translation) which
complicate or restrict the access.
the remote domain name, see the server name, see a share,
but cannot access the c$ or d$ on the server and the share
that the user can see empty.
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This sounds like permissions problem(s) -- Users should not generally be
access the "$" Administrative shares. Maybe there are no permissions on
the files THERE for the user.

Users need both share and NTFS file permissions to access files through a
share
that uses an NTFS drive.
Is RAS needed to resolve this error she is getting at the
remote site?
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Almost certainly not, since you seem to have "network access" (ping, etc.)
 
The C$ share is only accessbile to admins. Is the user account that the client is logged in with an admin of the server?

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support
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