We have a VPN setup for remote users. The users get access to all resources
once connected. This has been working fine. Last week, i started experiencing
problems on some of the notebooks (nb not all of them). The vpn connection
initialises and connects, and the ip and dns address is assigned correctly.
The user can just not connect to any resources. Can't ping anything on the
network. If i try an nslookup, it can't find the dns server, so it reverts
back to the isp connections dns server.
I have been doing some trouble shooting to trace, but the only thing common
on the notebooks which are experiencing this problem, is that they enabled
the "offline files" option. I disabled the option, but the problem still
persists. Any ideas?

Sean

One more thing i forgot to add, I disabled windows firewall just to make sure
there were no issues caused by it, but still the issue persists.
All the notebooks are running XP Pro with SP2, and patched with the latest
updates

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Can you ping remote computer by IP? Or posting the result of ipconfig/all may help.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
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  We have a VPN setup for remote users. The users get access to all resources
  once connected. This has been working fine. Last week, i started experiencing
  problems on some of the notebooks (nb not all of them). The vpn connection
  initialises and connects, and the ip and dns address is assigned correctly.
  The user can just not connect to any resources. Can't ping anything on the
  network. If i try an nslookup, it can't find the dns server, so it reverts
  back to the isp connections dns server.
  I have been doing some trouble shooting to trace, but the only thing common
  on the notebooks which are experiencing this problem, is that they enabled
  the "offline files" option. I disabled the option, but the problem still
  persists. Any ideas?

  Sean

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