VPN Offline files synchroniziation

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See http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] US;q290523

I personally abhor offline files and for all my laptop users, I set them up
with SecondCopy 2000 from www.centered.com - cheap, does the job really
well.

Simon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a Netgear FVL328 Router and the Netgear Safenet VPN client
> software setup on an XP Pro laptop SP1.
>
> We can connect our VPN fine. I can ping all servers and do nslookup.
> everything works fine. We have an LMHOSTS file also.
>
> The problem is that once the VPN is connected the laptop still classes
> it self as offline, when really it isnt. And when i try to connect to
> any of the servers or synchronize, it asks for a user name and
> password. When I enter my username and password. It replys We have
> tried using your name and password but a domain controller could not
> be found to verify.
>
> I try to use the domain administrator username and password which
> appears to work fine, but the synchroniziation fails and gives this
> message. 'Mutiple connections to a server or shared resource by the
> same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed.'
>
> What does that actually mean. I'm really confused why its not
> aceppting my user name and password.
>
> And help would be great
>
> Thanks in advance