Do you have more than one IP address on your Exchange server? Or if your server is behind NAT, then it would have an internal address and external address...
Here is what I am getting at. Maybe under some circumstances Outlook is trying to get to the wrong IP address. Try the HOSTS file in this format Your.server.ip.address servername servername.yourdomain.name.com This way you will make sure that both the NetBIOS name and the FQDN of your server are pointing to the same IP. -----Original Message----- From: Warren Cundy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 1:06 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Outlook/Exchange/VPN connectivity problem Hi guys, A few users are having an intermittent connectivity problem to Exchange server over a VPN connection. Here's what we're using: Exchange 2000 Sp3, Outlook 2002 Sp2 on the clients. When these users connect to our VPN, they can see/ping everything, including Exchange, but always have problems opening outlook. First they have to set their profile to manually control the connection and force an online connection. Even then they have to hit "retry" a few times, but it finally connects, although very slowly. I know DNS DNS DNS, but they can ping the Exchange server by name, and I even gave them entries in the HOSTS file for the local (internal VPN) address of the Exchange server... any thoughts here? Its driving me crazy. -W _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
