WinXP VPN Problem

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You didn't by any chance put a HOST or LMHOST file entry onthe Laptop an
not the desktop?

paulroskilly@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I have a office with a netgear router and a windows 2003 server running
>
> a VPN server. Where I live I have another netgear router and a laptop
> running windows XP and can connect to the VPN at the office no problem.
>
>
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> My desktop machine at home, windows xp, exact same VPN connection
> settings and behind same netgear router as laptop cant connect to the
> server though, it says validating username and password for a while
> then says : Error 721, The remote computer did not respond.
>
>
> I dont understand it at all, how can one connect but bnot the other,
> the server must be working ok.
>
>
> Also as a side issue, but not as important, on the laptop I can get to
> any computer on the office network by ip address but only the VPN
> server by name (the names of all the other computers won't resolve).
>
>
> Thanks for any help as im going crazy!
>

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Thanks for the reply.

No I didnt put any host or lmhost entries on the laptop, I cant think
of anything that is different between the 2.