Janani Vasudevan[MSFT]

What error do you get? Is it 'Logon failure: Unknown username or password'?
If so, can you try accessing the shares with the full FQDN name of the
machine?

Do let me know what happens.

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Janani Vasudevan
Software Design Engineer/Test
RRAS, Windows Enterprise Networking

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"Richard_G" <RichardG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:71354DF0-DBC4-48A4-ABA7-33B48F1779EE@microsoft.com...
> Vista has been working great for me with one major problem:
>
> I have a remote machine running WS2003, and have R&RA configured to allow
> dial-in VPN connections. DHCP is configured for all dial-in IP/DNS/WINS IP
> allocation.
>
> Using the windows XP VPN client I can connect fine to the server. I can
> also
> browse the servers shares and (granted permissions) browse the contents of
> shared folders.
>
> Using the vista VPN client I can also connect fine. I can ping each
> machine
> from the end of the tunnel. I cannot access shared folders though, nor
> browse
> the shares of either machine.
>
> I found a promising update from Microsoft: KB930163. This explained that a
> possible cause of the problem is the incorrect metric of the route to the
> VPN
> server. However this update did not resolve the problem.
>
> As far as I can see, the only difference of the basic configurable
> properties of the VPN connection on the Vista machine vs XP is the
> 'automatic
> metric' option in advanced tcp/ip settings. Should this be set manually?
> My
> concern is that the metric status may be causing the problem - and I'm not
> entirely confident changing that setting.
>
> Any help will be gratefully appreciated.
>
> I have included a grab of netstat -r for reference (please note
> 63.63.63.63
> is fictional!)
>
> Active Routes:
> Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface
> Metric
> 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.10.1 192.168.10.6 30
> 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 10.116.116.3 10.116.116.8 26
> 10.116.116.8 255.255.255.255 On-link 10.116.116.8 281
> 63.63.63.63 255.255.255.255 192.168.10.1 192.168.10.6 31
> 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
> 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
> 127.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
> 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0 On-link 192.168.10.6 286
> 192.168.10.6 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.10.6 286
> 192.168.10.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.10.6 286
> 224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
> 224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 192.168.10.6 286
> 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
> 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.10.6 286
> 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 10.116.116.8 281