knightspawn1138
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Okay, a few months ago, I was able to setup a VPN directly into our network through the Tiger Server. I configured it to be the master domain controller (since we only have OSX servers, mostly Mac workstations, and a handfull of Win2K / WinXP machines in the office). Anyway, I had configured some of the laptops, and my personal PC from home to connect to the VPN and gain access to the servers (a Tiger server which was also the main VPN connection point, and a Panther server which was our other file server). The servers are all on the same subnet, and the PCs within the office were able to login to both file servers with no problems.
Then, around the time of the last Server update (10.4.3 I think), I lost the ability to see the servers when browsing the domain. This isn't really affecting the PCs within the office, since they still see the servers via the Workgroup. But, this has caused 2 big problems with clients connecting over the VPN:
1) The clients only seem to be able to connect once, but they can't see the servers. They show up in the VPN connections, but I can't ping the outside machines' internal IP address via any of the inside machines. Then, if I disconnect and try to re-connect to the VPN, it refuses to authenticate - even with different user names. The only way I've found around that is to change the connection point from an IP address to a domain name (ns1.xlsys.com) - don't ask me why that should make any difference. But after connecting, I still can't see any servers in the domain.
2) Even though I can ping the servers when I'm able to connect to the VPN, I can't find the servers or logon to them.
At first, I thought it might have been a hiccup with one of the servers and their Windows sharing settings. But that's hard to believe since they are both visible to PC clients as members of the same workgroup, but they're not showing up as members of the Windows domains they belong to. Also, it's hard to believe since one of the servers is running Panther server, so it hasn't gotten any system updates like the Tiger server did - therefore, nothing about it has changed. The Panther server is also a member of the Open Directory domain hosted by the Tiger server.
Another odd thing is that the internal PCs don't see the servers within the domain either, but the PCs still connect to the servers with no other problems.
Wierd, eh?
Then, around the time of the last Server update (10.4.3 I think), I lost the ability to see the servers when browsing the domain. This isn't really affecting the PCs within the office, since they still see the servers via the Workgroup. But, this has caused 2 big problems with clients connecting over the VPN:
1) The clients only seem to be able to connect once, but they can't see the servers. They show up in the VPN connections, but I can't ping the outside machines' internal IP address via any of the inside machines. Then, if I disconnect and try to re-connect to the VPN, it refuses to authenticate - even with different user names. The only way I've found around that is to change the connection point from an IP address to a domain name (ns1.xlsys.com) - don't ask me why that should make any difference. But after connecting, I still can't see any servers in the domain.
2) Even though I can ping the servers when I'm able to connect to the VPN, I can't find the servers or logon to them.
At first, I thought it might have been a hiccup with one of the servers and their Windows sharing settings. But that's hard to believe since they are both visible to PC clients as members of the same workgroup, but they're not showing up as members of the Windows domains they belong to. Also, it's hard to believe since one of the servers is running Panther server, so it hasn't gotten any system updates like the Tiger server did - therefore, nothing about it has changed. The Panther server is also a member of the Open Directory domain hosted by the Tiger server.
Another odd thing is that the internal PCs don't see the servers within the domain either, but the PCs still connect to the servers with no other problems.
Wierd, eh?