VPN - 2003 domain

[Diaonic]

I know there is something very basic i'm missing, i'm hoping someone can point it out.

I have 4 remote users who VPN into our office for a SQL app. They also access network resources.

As of lately they can't access any network shares.

When i have them goto:
\\0.0.0.0\sharename

Also

\\servername\sharename

They get promtped for the username and password.

I've tried several domain accounts with admin rights and none of them will login.

domainname\username

These shares work fine locally.


It should also be noted that the machines trying to access these shares are obviously none domain computers. I beleive this may have something to do with it.


Thanks

 

[netsysadmin]

Is the machine you are testing with part of the domain or not? If those users are using computers that are not part of the domain you may want to try turning off "Simple File Sharing". When that feature is on in WinXP it tries to authenticate to the server with the guest account.

John

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Diaonic
I know there is something very basic i'm missing, i'm hoping someone can point it out.

I have 4 remote users who VPN into our office for a SQL app. They also access network resources.

As of lately they can't access any network shares.

When i have them goto:
\\0.0.0.0\sharename

Also

\\servername\sharename

They get promtped for the username and password.

I've tried several domain accounts with admin rights and none of them will login.

domainname\username

These shares work fine locally.


It should also be noted that the machines trying to access these shares are obviously none domain computers. I beleive this may have something to do with it.


Thanks

Question 1. Was this at one time working? You say "as of late"...

Question 2. Can the machines ping the IP's or hostnames of the machines they are trying to connect to?

Question 3. Are the FQDN's of the domain servers being published to public DNS or is it just internal? if its just internal, are the remote users able to connect to the internal DNS?

 

[Diaonic]

I figured it out.

This is the error I was getting

"Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more

than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the

server or shared resource and try again..
"


When I did a net use to show the current connections, it had connections listed to the server I was trying to connect to. For some reason they we're invalid and wouldn't allow the computer to connect to another resource on the same server.

So if you do a net use \\resource\ /delete

Than remount the paths you need it worked fine.


Thanks

Dia