Win XP Home, MS VPN, Odd Issue

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Here is the setup

Home user, Windows XP (i assume home, doesn't matter) uses the microsoft
PPTP vpn to establish a connection to the company network (connects to Win2k
server). This works great, we have 15 employees doing this. Once connected,
they try to connect to a server named 'servera'. Can not connect. connect
to 'serverb', 'serverc', everything else except this 'servera'. I'm at work
and I can connect to 'servera' without problem. I can even remote desktop
home, vpn in, and connect that way to 'servera' and it works. No problem.
From the users home computer that is not working, i can ping 'servera' and
the correct ip address replies. I can tracert and it shows the connection to
the vpn server. I can telnet to 'servera' port 3389 and it connects just
like it should.

Where do you start to troubleshoot this issue? Since the user can connect
to every server (14) of them from home, it is only 1 they can not connect to.
The one they are connecting to is Windows 2000, and other servers are win2k
and win2k3, they connect to all of them just fine.

This evening I will reboot the one server they can not connect to see if
that is the issue. Any thoughts ?
 
I did another test. I loaded up tsweb (terminal servies via web) on a server
called 'serverx' and from the home computer did http://serverx/tsweb that
came up just fine and typed in 'servera' hit connect and it complained about
a license issue and it could not connect, yet i can connect using that method
from another home vpn connection and from the office....
 
Do you have any user-level restrictions as to which machines the user can
log onto?
 
Well, for it to be a user-level restriction, it would have to first connect
to the port, and give the option to login, because the process before that,
the system does not know who you are. This user can log into 'servera' while
they are in the office with no problem.
 
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