XP Pro not communicating with Win 2003

I have been connecting my xp pro machine to our sbs exchange server for over
a year without problem, in the last few days I have lost connection to the
server, Outlook is 'Trying to connect' but never does. I can ping the server
but cannot get a remote desktop, access shares on the server or access SQL
server via enterprise manager. But I have
complete access to other (win 2k) servers on the same subnet using the xp
machine. Using another machine I can gain complete access to the sbs server
(remote desktop & shares). This seems pretty strange as all my other metwork
services are unaffected other than connection to the 2003 server...and all
use the same route & VPN. I have checked both the server and the XP machine
for errors in the logs but there is nothing.

I'm getting pretty desperate here .. Any advice would be helpful

Paul

I have had similar issues in the past week or so but only with one 2003
server which happens to be at a remote site connected by VPN. Note that
until middle of last week all users had no problem. Right now all users can
ping the server but sustained connections (e.g. file copying, remote
desktop) always fail for only about half my users. The rest of the users did
not experience any problem. I started to suspect that a recent Windows
Update caused the problem. Yesterday we noticed that one XP machine seemed
to be "magically" fixed and the only thing that changed was the installation
of a Cisco VPN client. I started installing this VPN client on other PCs and
sure enough it fixed each PC that had previously been unable to connect to
this one 2003 server. I know this "workaround" sounds crazy and I find this
to be extremely bizarre but I still suspect a recent MS Windows Update from
middle of last week is the cause of the initial problem and hope that enough
people are having problems that Microsoft release a patch for it. I don't
want to have to install this Cisco VPN client on every PC in my
organization.


"Paul Owen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have been connecting my xp pro machine to our sbs exchange server for
>over
> a year without problem, in the last few days I have lost connection to the
> server, Outlook is 'Trying to connect' but never does. I can ping the
> server
> but cannot get a remote desktop, access shares on the server or access SQL
> server via enterprise manager. But I have
> complete access to other (win 2k) servers on the same subnet using the xp
> machine. Using another machine I can gain complete access to the sbs
> server
> (remote desktop & shares). This seems pretty strange as all my other
> metwork
> services are unaffected other than connection to the 2003 server...and all
> use the same route & VPN. I have checked both the server and the XP
> machine
> for errors in the logs but there is nothing.
>
> I'm getting pretty desperate here .. Any advice would be helpful
>
> Paul
>
>