Re: help please, I can't get outlook to see our server though our VPN

From: blob (pdscomp_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 07/24/03 

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:59:18 +0000 (UTC)

After 300 seconds I get a 'Do you want to work offline' message.
There's nothing wrong with outlook as I use it on my private profile.
tracert takes 14 hops to get to the works server, but 1-13 are all
just stars, ping is instant 47ms, tracert takes ages.

I've never known such a weird problem. If I open windows explorer
and type in \\workserver it takes ages to eventually show me the server
contents, coincidentally about the same time as tracert takes to get to the
14th hop and the server! I forgot to mention before its exchange server
at the other end. My network admin thinks the server gets the packets
but doesn't know where to send the reply to.

"Duane Arnold" <notme@notme.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93C1CA92DBF37notmenotmecom@63.240.76.16...
> "blob" <pdscomp@btinternet.com> wrote in
> news:bfmpjs$ls9$1@sparta.btinternet.com:
>
> > Can anyone help me please I have a SOHO6 at work connected to an NT
> > server. At home I have a Netgear DG814 modem/router/firewall. The VPN
> > Client it the watchguard muvpn.
> >
> > Before I added the Netgear everything worked fine, I could see the
> > server, copy files,
> > see shares and outlook would connect to my mailbox.
> >
> > But now with the netgear at my end everything works except outlook
> > will not connect
> > to my mailbox, I can't find any help on the web and I'm getting no
> > response from
> > watchguard to my queries. Worse outlook doesn't even start, How do I
> > set up the netgear
> > to let outlook through. I'm sure the vpn tunnel is set up correctly as
> > it worked before.
> >
> > Regards Paul.
> >
> >
> >
>
> If you're truly connected to the network with VPN through the router and
> are using some kind VPN client software on the machine, the router is out
> of the picture, and I would think is not the issue. I would think that
> even without VPN software on the machine, the router is out of the
> picture. Network traffic is flowing. And besides, how can the router stop
> anything such as Outlook from starting on the machine? If Outlook is
> starting and it had no network connection, it would be asking *Do you
> want to work offline?*.
>
> Duane :)
>
> --
> The protection of the machine is a process and not a given!

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