stacey14
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can only map to network drives using IP addresses
I need to connect to my company's Intranet from home using my Windows XP laptop. I can connect thru a VPN connection. There's a couple of problems that I'm having however.
1. If I want to map to particular drives I have to use the server's IP address instead of its name
2. In order to use our online application thats on our Intranet, I have to use the IP also.
Is there a setting on the server or my laptop that is not set that is not recognizing the names of the server?
The server's are Win 2000 .
any ideas?
1. If I want to map to particular drives I have to use the server's IP address instead of its name
2. In order to use our online application thats on our Intranet, I have to use the IP also.
Is there a setting on the server or my laptop that is not set that is not recognizing the names of the server?
The server's are Win 2000 .
any ideas?
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I expect that your VPN connection does not have a DNS suffix,
Open up the properties of the connection > networking > tcp/ip > properties > advanced > DNS > DNS Suffix for this connection > (type in your internal domain name) mydomain.local
Hope that helps,
-red