Corp. e-mail remote access trouble

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AMHJohansson wrote:
> Connecting through VPN, a user tries to open Outlook. Gets error
> "Network problems prevent connection to Exchange server." User
> clicks OK, gets "Could not complete action," clicks OK. Gets the
> general tab to check exchange information, everything is correct
> (tried IP instead of server name here, result is the same). Clicks
> OK, gets "Could not open folders, do you want to open default system
> folders?"
>
> I can see that the user is connected to the VPN concentrator. User
> can ping server. User gets auth. request to connect to servers.
>
> Any ideas what these "Network Problems" might be?

Is there a stateful firewall on the VPN client blocking port 135.. (or maybe
it was 139?) - if not using RPC over HTTP, this port (whichever it was -
sorry, it's late) must be opened to send the data to Outlook.

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