I agree with this try by IP not UNC.

Jon

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Candee <[email protected]> wrote:

> if the Cisco client said you were connected, then you were.
> did you try to connect to the remote desktop machine via IP address?
> Did you bother trying to ping anything?
> What else have you changed on your laptop?
>
>   On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:13 AM, John Aldrich <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Well, I can RDP from my wife’s computer back to the servers or my work
>> desktop, so yes, they know how to get back through the VPN. Not sure about
>> the last question, but either way, as long as it works on my wife’s
>> desktop,
>> but not on my laptop (when I’m at home OR out on the road) it shouldn’t
>> matter, should it? I think everyone keeps overlooking the fact that it
>> works
>> at home ON MY WIFE’S DESKTOP, but NOT on my company laptop, when at home
>> OR
>> on the road. I tried it plugged up to an Ethernet jack at a seminar
>> Tuesday
>> and it did not work. I tried it wirelessly at McDonald's and while I was
>> able to get around, surfing the web and even SSH into my linux box at
>> home,
>> I was not able to RDP while connected to the VPN. I also plugged up to the
>> Ethernet at home and tried to VPN and RDP from the same physical network
>> as
>> my wife's PC, and was unable to connect via RDP. Cisco client *said* I was
>> connected, but I was unable to get past the firewall at the office.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:02 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: VPN problems
>>
>> your Terminal Server know how to route back to the VPN client ?  Incorrect
>> default gateway for the VPN tunnel ?  Your VPN passing source address or
>> using NAT ?
>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, John Aldrich <
>> [email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> Yeah... but if the same *exact* account works on the Desktop, but not on
>> the
>> laptop, that shouldn't be the issue, should it?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 9:34 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: RE: VPN problems
>> If the Cisco VPN client connects, but then you can't access anything on
>> the network, you most likely have some kind of routing problem.  The VPN
>> client has to decide whether to send traffic through the VPN tunnel or
>> over the local network.  This decision is based on the split tunneling
>> settings (as indicated below) and the available/advertised routes on
>> both networks.  Generally speaking, if the VPN client has an IP address
>> that is also in the range of a network on the other side (think private
>> addresses), you can have issues--some of which can be mitigated with the
>> split tunneling settings.
>>
>> Bill Mayo
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