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   Blasting Cap to All   
   Problem with VPN   
   11 Aug 04 17:22:00   
   
   From: goober@christian.net   
      
   I have a user who just signed up for Bellsouth Fastconnect DSL.   
      
   We use the native VPN in Windows XP professional on his PC in order to   
   connect to our system.  He uses Outlook 2003 & Internet Explorer when   
   connected to our system.   
      
   When VPN is set up, it's a garden variety install, taking default settings   
   after specifying our vpn server name.   
      
   He can connect, and outlook functions fine.  However, the problem is   
   Internet Explorer.   
      
   Once he's connected via VPN to our system, Outlook works fine, he can see   
   public folders and everything he should see.  However, the problem is   
   getting to our website.  He cannot access our website by it's external name.   
   If he tries, he doesn't even get the NT Challenge Response box - it just   
   goes straight to a DNS error on the web browser.   
      
   If he tries connecting using the server name (not the external web server   
   name), it works fine.   
      
   If he disconnects from VPN, if he tries our external web server name, it   
   works fine there also.   
      
   That made me think that the problem was VPN and NOT the web browser, since   
   it'd work outside of VPN.   
      
   We have 1 other user who has a similar problem, and have not been able to   
   resolve either of them.  Both users have the proper permissions, and they   
   are the same as about a hundred other users.  Getting to our website from   
   internally using the external web address name works fine for everyone else.   
      
   I checked to see if he had a stray DNS or WINS in his setup, and he didn't.   
   It was the same as mine, which works exactly as it should.   
      
   Any ideas????   
      
   Help!!   
      
   BC   
      
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