My battle with Server 2012 Essentials VPN Access Continues

macally · 24 May 2013 at 11:45

Right..

Thanks to all the help on here so far, I have managed to get most of the way there with the VPN Access on a Windows 2012 Essentials Server for my friend. This has been a very painful experience which ultimately resulted in me re-installing Windows Server at one point just so that I could start afresh.

Now, whilst I'm almost there and can probably configure the network satisfactorily, there's one small hurdle left and I'm really hoping someone here can help.

I'm at the point now where I can connect to the Windows 2012 Essentials Server via VPN and whilst connected, I can ping everything on the remote network (from router to server by IP address AND the server name), however, I can only map a drive if I use the server's IP address.

i.e. if I try to map \\192.168.201.201\sharedDrive it works fine. If I try to map \\servername\sharedDrive it fails, however I can ping both 192.168.201.201 and servername.

Has anyone got any thoughts on what I could do to get it working?

Thanks

tribz · 24 May 2013 at 12:29

Go into the TCP/IP v4 network settings of your VPN dial up connection and set the DNS setting to the servers IP address. Leave the IP and subnet masks as automatic.

When connected it will then use the servers DNS name resolution to correctly look up the servername on the network.

Edit, Ive missed the bit about you being able to ping the name so the above may not make any difference at all.

macally · 24 May 2013 at 12:36

tribz said:
Go into the TCP/IP v4 network settings of your VPN dial up connection and set the DNS setting to the servers IP address. Leave the IP and subnet masks as automatic.

When connected it will then use the servers DNS name resolution to correctly look up the servername on the network.

Edit, Ive missed the bit about you being able to ping the name so the above may not make any difference at all.

Thanks for the suggestion. That didn't solve the problem unfortunately

macally · 26 May 2013 at 11:23

Any ideas anyone?

covenantuk · 27 May 2013 at 13:52

Possibly saved credentials are stopping the drive mapping:

Control Panel: User Accounts: Manage My Account: Manage My Credentials

Delete any saved credentials and retry.

If this fails try this to reset the CSC (offline cache)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942974

edscdk · 2 Jun 2013 at 13:24

if you can connect via IP but not name your names resolution is not working... its as simple as that?

I assume if you ping the name it fails

if you cannot figure it out stick in it the hosts file

macally · 2 Jun 2013 at 23:38

Thanks for your suggestion but its nothing to do with name resolution. As stated above, I can ping the server by name, just cannot map drives by name.

tribz · 3 Jun 2013 at 07:56

Can you do an IPCONFIG /ALL on the server and the client PC (whilst connected via VPN) and paste the results up here.