Ugh, are you serious? Static mappings in WINS are EVIL. Besides, DNS is
where most of these problems are. Outlook uses DNS to resolve the Exchange
server, not WINS. If Outlook is slugglish, putting static entries in WINS
won't do anything to resolve the problem.
Ben Winzenz, MCSE
Network/Systems Administrator
Peregrine Systems, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony L. Sollars [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:47 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: E2K Windows-98 VPN Connection Problem
Make sure you have WINS available for resolution and static mappings for
your mail servers. I no MS says win2k does not need wins but as many have
found out, that turining off wins causes many problems. I have directly
discovered problems with Outlook over VPN when not using the wins service.
-TOny
-----Original Message-----
From: McKnight, Charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:47 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: E2K Windows-98 VPN Connection Problem
We had a similar deal on several 9x machines after moving to a new (5.5 in
our case) server and it was simply that the new exchange server didn't have
a DNS entry.. we added this and it immediately fixed it for all of these
machines so you might try looking into a DNS, hosts file solution.. but
again this was on and NT4/exch 5.5 setup so I may be way off..
Charles
Charles F. McKnight
PC/Lan Specialist
Mercy Health System - NWA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Marchiondo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:35 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: E2K Windows-98 VPN Connection Problem
>
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> This one has me stumped and my next stop is PSS but I thought
> I would try
> here first.
>
> We have been running Exchange 5.5 in our Windows 2000 domain
> for quite some
> time with the ADC. When E2K SP1 was released we started planning our
> migration. We installed the E2K server in the same site and
> moved all the
> mailboxes to the new server. We setup our cc:Mail connector and SMTP
> connector on the new server and disabled the old ones.
>
> Despite a few bumps it is working fairly well. We have a
> mixture of Windows
> 2000, NT 4.0, 98, and one ME client all using Outlook 2000. Everybody
> connects fine on the LAN.
>
> Some clients connect to the LAN via a VPN connection. All
> Windows 2000
> clients connecting this way work fine. The Windows 98 and
> one ME client do
> not. When starting Outlook these clients just hang forever.
>
> When looking at the profile we see that the server name has been
> automatically switched as usual. However, if we rebuild the
> profile and try
> to resolve the mailbox name, that too hangs forever. If we
> create a mailbox
> on the Exchange 5.5 server and try to resolve that it all
> works fine. Any
> attempt to contact the Exchange 2000 server instead results
> in the process
> hanging - only on 98 and ME. Win2K works fine.
>
> We can map shares, ping, and do all kinds of other network
> things from these
> Windows-98 clients via VPN to the Exchange 2000 server. The
> connectivity
> seems to be there. We have tested with RPCPing and so on as
> well and that
> all works.
>
> I can't figure out what VPN would have to do with it and why
> it works fine
> for Windows 2000 clients. All work fine on the LAN. We have
> only seen this
> problem with VPN and only to the Exchange 2000 server - not
> the Exchange 5.5
> Server. We also tried installing the Active Directory client
> add-on for
> Windows 9x (DSCLIENT) and that didn't fix it either.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
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