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Exchange not working over VPN

Zones: SBS Small Business Server, Virtual Private Networking (VPN)

Tags: Microsoft, SBS, 2003 R2

I have a North and South office connect with a Linksys VPN, SBS 2003 is at the North office.
Users from either site can ping the gateways and public IP's from the local and remote sites to verify the VPN is working. Either site can type \\server name in Windows explorer and see file and printer resources at either site. Users at the South office can log into the SBS domain without any isuses.
Company Web, the internal SBS site can be seen from either site as well.

There are two things that are not accessable:
1) Remote Web Workplace - Logging into the SBS with RWW you can access any resources including the South 2003 Std Server, but you can not access any client machines. They are not available.

2) We can not set up Outlook, they can only access email using the Web interface. If I enter the Exchange server into the mail setup it gives me an error saying it can not find the server or account.

I am thinking the two problems are related by a DNS issues but not sure what entry to make or where it needs to be. I have DNS entries for both servers on the two servers which got everything working this far. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Question Asked By: richlang

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Comment by billy_Lunam

This string is quite long and i need new glasses, so hope I have not missed the point.
As the outlook web access (OWA) works. Try setting up the outlook clients as RPC over HTTP (Outlook Anywhere) as a work around. You may need to trat them as none domain PCs in doing so.

On one of your south PC's use the LMHosts file with Pre and DOM commands, in that file add the details for both servers. Reboot and test that PC. It may help ID where this is going wrong

Bill Lunam
http://www.kinetics.co.nz

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