VPN with MS PPTP, and strange network drive mapping behaviour

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Richy

Question,

I have a laptop, its a member of my domain at work. I log on at work my
network drives get mapped and I work away.

I come home, boot up my XP Pro machine and login, as usual, it lets me as it
uses my cached profile. If I open explorer I can see my network drives as it
remembers them.

I then decide to VPN in to do some work. I use the MS PPTP client and VPN
through the internet and get authenticated. I then have access to my domain.
If I open Outlook it all works fine. As I have a host file which tells me my
server = IP.

I then try and get on my mapped drive, it comes up saying it can't be found.
So I try a manual map to it and it asks me for a username and password to
access it. I enter domain\username and my password and it won't let me as
its already tried that one. So I try domain\administrator and my password
and it maps fine.

Its not a file access permission as I can use it fine in the office. Yet I
have another XP laptop which is setup networking wise identical, but it
works as expected. You never have to manually map.

I have only seen these issues with XP Pro (don't know about home as I never
use it) previously with Windows 2000 Pro I never had any problems.

Does anyone know why? As its a bit annoying. I can work round it but I am
sure its not meant to be like this.

Regards

Richard
 
I suspect this isn't relevant, but if you're using Offline Files, see if
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q290523 looks
helpful. Also - have you tried using an lmhosts file instead of a hosts
file, that includes the domain 0x1b entry? If your server runs WINS, you
might also try manually entering the WINS server IP address in your network
connection properties.

<shameless plug>
(My usual response to problems with offline files is that I've never been
happy with that feature and have given up on it - I use Second Copy 2000
from www.centered.com on all my client's laptops and have been very pleased
with it. It's cheap, and they have a 30-day eval you can download and then
license if you purchase it without reinstalling. I have no affiliation with
the company other than liking their product.)
</shameless plug>
 
I have tried all that below, and it makes no difference. It seems to me its
purely a XP issue. As I never have had a problem with windows 2000 Pro.

Regards

Richard

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