[KLUG Members] PPTP.

[awilliam at whitemice.org]

> Looking around, I found another place for domain name, under
> Control-Panel -> Internet-options (instead of Network Connections)
> and since then it now works half the time (every other time I connect).
> Weird, but at least it's usable now (with a little screwing around).

Strange.  But hey, this is a windows client.  

> Now what's the trick to mapping a network drive through the VPN?  :-)
> All I get is timeouts, like it's not going through the VPN,
> and I know the VPN is working because I can browse intranet sites
> and telnet to ports only on the internal network.

You're certain your VPN server isn't blocking the CIFS ports?  Is WINS 
working,  you really *NEED* WINS to do anything CIFS over the VPN 
connection.  You can test WINS using the nbtstat<sp?> command.

Honestly, given the latency of a VPN connection, I find using WebDAV 
access to document files to be much faster;  CIFS is really slow at high 
latency.  We run the Davenport CIFS/DAV bridge; so everything exported via 
CIFS (Samba or Win32) is also a DAV resource.  Dumb users continue to use 
CIFS, smart ones use DAV.