Unable to map drive when connected via VPN

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Keith Holdsworth

My client has an XP Home Edition PC acting as a server.
The router port forwards VPN traffic to it.

When I VPN in from a Vista Client I can successfully map a network drive.
However when using any XP client the VPN connects but I am unable to map the
network drive. The error is teh network path could not be found.

I'm struggling to identify what Vista is doing that XP isn't.

Any suggestions will be gratefully recieved.
 
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:06:00 -0800, Keith Holdsworth <Keith
My client has an XP Home Edition PC acting as a server.
The router port forwards VPN traffic to it.

When I VPN in from a Vista Client I can successfully map a network drive.
However when using any XP client the VPN connects but I am unable to map the
network drive. The error is teh network path could not be found.

I'm struggling to identify what Vista is doing that XP isn't.

Any suggestions will be gratefully recieved.
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Keith , if after establishing your VPN connection, you can ping the
machine on the remote network (ex. 192.168.1.xxx) ) then you should be
able to access the shared devices on that machine by using the local
ip instead of the nameserver. After making the VPN connection, get
yourself to a command prompt on your client and and type the following
net use k: \\192.168.1.xxx\c (or whatever the ip# and shared
device name is on the remote network.) Then of course,you would set
the data path for the program you wish to run on your local machine to
drive k: It will even remember the share on subsequent connections.
Not real pretty, but, hey, it works !
To answer your last question, I don't know what Vista is doing that XP
isn't, but I never could get XP to browse the remote network by
nameserver.
 
I have been working on this problem for several days now and I have
found a solution.
I had a file server name and the share that I wanted to connect to,
but Vista for some reason did not let me connect to it when I tried
mapping this to a drive letter.
So what I did was to goto command prompt, then I typed in ping \
\fileserver . This showed me the IP address of my file server.
So after that, all I did was to goto Map network drive under Computer,
and then mapped in the IP address directly - e.g. \\174.2.44.21\share
This solved all my problems.

Cheers
J
 
You could use a lmhosts file that maps the computer name to the IP name.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314884/en-us

Here is an example lmhosts file...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Vista/PPTP/Examplelmhosts.txt

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