PPTP VPN connection

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Patrick

Some of our employees connect from home via the PPTP vpn
connection option in My Network Places - New Connection.
I've set up a corresponding login ID and PWD in the PPTP
connection section of our PIX 515 and they are able to
authenticate but they cannot map drives using server names-
they have to use the inside IP address of the server.

I've checked DNS and it appears to be fine.

Any ideas/suggestions appreciated.

Thanks
Patrick
 
Patrick said:
Some of our employees connect from home via the PPTP vpn
connection option in My Network Places - New Connection.
I've set up a corresponding login ID and PWD in the PPTP
connection section of our PIX 515 and they are able to
authenticate but they cannot map drives using server names-
they have to use the inside IP address of the server.

I've checked DNS and it appears to be fine.

Any ideas/suggestions appreciated.
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I have set up exactly the same configuration, Cisco PIX as PPTP server
and W2K and XP as PPTP clients, and it works fine. Your problem may be
that you dont give the clients a DNS server address or dont have set up
a default domain name.

On PIX you use the command
vpdn group <group-number> client configuration dns <your-dns-server>
to give the connecting clients automatically the address of your DNS
server. <group-number> is usually 1.

If you have set up DNS and it still does not work, does is work if they
use the full domain name to the server, i.e. "server.domain.com" instead
of just "server"? If that is the case you can set up your domain name as
a default domain suffix on the connection on the client computer.
 
You might also want to try using a lmhosts file. Trying nslookup from the
vpn client may help to see if the dns name resolution is working
orrectly. --- Steve
 
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