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Re: VPN problems
I'm clutching at straws here as your setup is a lot different to mine in that my VPN goes directly into the server's WAN NIC, and the server runs the firewall.
As I hinted at at in my intial posting, can you confirm that there is a completely different IP address range being used on you office LAN, including the firewall, compared to you home IP including it's firewall? The DNS has no chance of resolving if that is the case.
Your office server, is it a one NIC or two NIC setup? If it is a two NIC setup, I know there is a DNS setup issue with the second NIC, that it needs to point to the servers internal IP addy? Also check the binding order of the NICs (in network properties, advanced), the internal NIC should be first. I've also seen references to a registry edit that might be needed if your've got SP4 on your server.
As for admin of your own office network, I'm in a similar boat, everything I don is self taught in the experienc of life, and yes I've called in so called consultants who claim to be experienced but in fact just take your dosh and mess your system up for you. Once bitten twice shy.
And yes it is a pain if it don't work first time round. It took me months to get my VPN to work, and that was following all the gudiance I could find. Reformatted my office server, and it worked straight from the box!
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