Hi Philip,
This appears to be a name resolution issue. When the VPN client makes it's connection, it
cannot resolve the name to an IP address. Depending what information you are giving the
VPN client when it makes a connection, you can try one of the following:
1. Add Hosts file with both IP to host name and IP to FQDN of the resource servers/machines
2. Add DNS suffix search order for the domain in the VPN IP settings
3. Have WINS for the VPN clients
4. uninstall any forewall third party applications, such as Zone Alarm, and then test. If this
works, then you can reinstall Zone Alarm and check the configuration settings that were
blocking name resolution.
5. Be sure NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on the VPN connection proterties.
Hope this helps,
Gary
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