If you can't ping the IP, there is no thing to do with name resolution such
as DNS and WINS. It could be a routing issue or firewall issue. Posting the
ipconfig /all and routing tables on both computers may help.
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"Ron Gallimore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> We use Microsoft VPN for our remote users. There are times when some
> users
> can connect to our VPN server but can not connect to anything else on our
> network except for the server that is hosting RAS. The user can ping the
> RAS
> server without any issues. When they try to ping any other IP address on
> the
> LAN it returns one good ping and the next 3 fail. If they try to ping the
> IP
> address again, they all fail. The user can disconnect from the VPN and
> reconnect again and the same thing happens again, the first ping comes
> back
> OK and the last 3 die. This is only happening to some users. Usually
> this
> user does not have any problems. As I type this, 4 users are connected
> without any issues and 1 is connected but cannot access anything.
>
> I have set up a hosts file on this users computer and ensured DNS and WINS
> are correct.
>
> Any ideas?
> Ron