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No network provider accepted the given network path

I'm having a problem that has occured only reciently and can't find what's changed nor can find anything in any eventlogs to help.

One of our servers cannot be accessed through it's UNC address (i.e. \\servername) outside the network via VPN through our watchguard firewall.  All other servers are accessable through their UNCs.  We can access the server through VPN by using the numeric IP address.

There is no problem accessing the server though it's UNC within the network.

We're running 8 windows 2000 servers with one primary DC and one duplicate DC.  The primary holds all roles except WINS and DHCP.  I've double checked the DNS on the DC and find nothing wrong.  I suspected the firewall at first, but there is nothing I find in the firewall settings that might be singling out this server, and all the other servers are accessable through UNC.

What else should I check?
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Is this server configured on your external DNS server?  I'm assuming you have separate internal and external DNS servers.  If it is configured on an external DNS server, compare the record for this server with that on the internal server to make sure they point to the same IP address.

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I only have internal DNS servers.  We don't provide external access through the web, ftp, or telnet.  The Watchguard firewall does a pass through using the VPN client for our employees needing such access to the network.  I have compared the DNS records on the two internal DCs and they appear the same.
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