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Server 2008 RAS when laptops vpn the network drives are not accessible unless you first UNC the ip of the server

Hello everyone,

I have a server 2008 running RAS. I am able to successfully connect from my laptop but when I try to access the network drive it says that it's unable to connect.

BUT

If I go to the run dialog and enter the ip address of the server via UNC (ie: \\192.168.1.2) the window opens showing all the shares AND then I can go into My Computer and access the network drive. It wont even allow me to UNC with server name (ie: \\srv1).

If I decide to do nothing after I vpn (the UNC step) I noticed that the network drive will work if I wait 6-10 mins. This is obviously not acceptable to our client.

I can also ping the ip but not the name. I am thinking it's a dns issue not updating quickly or properly.

What can I do?!??!

Thanks

ceez

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itbamiami

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@austincomputerlabs: I guess I could give them a second script that disconnects their current network drive via \\servname and then reconnects them via \\servipaddrs.

Modifying the host file might be another solution, right now it's only 2 users allowed to use vpn but if it grows is will get out of hand to manually modify each time a new person is allowed to vpn.

I will wait and see if anyone else has gotten this problem and resolved it.

thanks for the reply

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