Company VPN / Domain Query
 

Hi.

Our Company has recently upgraded the network and server. We have moved over to Windows 2003 Server and at the same time gone over to a Domain.

I have a laptop which logs onto the domain at work and I can access all my mapped drives etc and any shared folder I require on the server.

I also want this same laptop to be able to "dial up" to Company Vigor router VPN connection whilst at home and everything appear as if I was in the office (which is what VPN is for afterall!).

When I am at home I log on as normal and the VPN connects fine. I can browse around and see the Company network in Network Neighbourhood. So connection is there and good.

The problem is I do not get the same access as if I was sitting at my desk in the office. I see a select few folders (which only have the files I have accessed) and not the full range. This also means that I don't get access to the mapped drives I need (for example - I need to run Sage Accounts at home as if I was on the network - the folder I map to doesn't appear).

If I log on as Domain Administrator (which I don't want to use) from home as opposed to my day to day log on (everyday user) I get access to everything as if I was in the office.

I am suffering from a privelage / access rights problem here which I cannot put my finger on. Can anyone help?

Re: Company VPN / Domain Query
 

Does your standard user have remote access polices correctly dset, I also asume you are using the routers VPN capabilites and not Server 2003.

Have you tried just manually pulling drives up from the run comand ie:

\\ServerName\SharedFolderName

What heppens if you do that?

Re: Company VPN / Domain Query
 

- "Does your standard user have remote access polices correctly set". As Windows 2003 is new to me (and we are without our resident in house Windows 2003 expert for a few weeks) I feel this is where my problems lie. My knowledge on how to set these runs out! As I state in OP. Overall Admin username and password - goes in no problem.

- Yes we are currently using the VPN on the router and not Windows 2003.

- \\ServerName\SharedFolderName - by entering that I can get access to the folders I can see but not the ones that I know are there and cannot see!

Re: Company VPN / Domain Query
 

I have seen this before - never fixed it. It was a similar setup - remote site connecting to main site via VPN. I feel it's something to do with authentication.

Re: Company VPN / Domain Query
 

I have found there to be issues with IP address's, basically make sure your home network ip is on a differetn subnet to the office.. ie 192.68.0.1 and 192.168.0.10 can cause problems whereas 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.54.1 works fine.

Re: Company VPN / Domain Query
 

Totally different subnet and of course the Admin user and password works on the exact same set up.

Thanks.