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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