Folks,
Thanks for all the suggestions. The client is a Microsoft VPN PPTP
connection.
We have verified the DNS and WINS settings are correct on both servers
(Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000). We have verified the DNS and WINS
settings on the client after the VPN connection comes up. We can from the
client:
ping e55.domain.com successfully (e55 = exchange 5.5 server)
ping e55 successfully
ping e2k.domain.com successfully (e2k = exchange 2000 server)
ping e2k successfully
RPingc e2k Rping successfully
RPingc e2k Store successfully
Rpingc ek2 Admin successfully
ping ad.domain.com successfully (ad = active domain controller)
ping ad successfully
If I point the Windows-98 profile at the e55 server, the profile is
automagically updated to point to the e2k server but then it hangs. It
hangs forever by the way.
I noticed that the registry entry in the profile on a Windows 2000 box gets
updated to point to ad.domain.com (the 01e6602 string value in the
\dca740c8c042101ab4b908002b2fe182 key) like it is supposed to but this isn't
happening on the VPN 98 box. I tried adding the value with no such luck.
I follow the logic and I keep thinking name resolution problem but when I
try all the above it doesn't make sense.
Michael
> -----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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