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    Question Remote Users

    Me again ..

    We had a problem today, with one of our users dialing in from home. Seems when they connected from home, the server assigned their computer a IP# ... which just happened to be one that was already taken by the NT4 WS. Why would this happen? It, of course, knocked the NT 4 WS off the LAN...


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    Unhappy

    Its rather entertaining that I have posted two questions that cannot (apparently) be answered.

    Ah well.

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    If you have more than one DHCP server, it's possible that the IP ranges on them overlap.

    Alternatively, the dial in client is set up with a static IP address and using SLIP.


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    dadigz
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    I find this to work much better:

    Set up RAS and VPN clients to receive an IP address on a seperate subnet and configure your server to route between the two subnets. The only issue this brings up, is if the remote user is also a local user (i.e. a laptop on the road) (s)he will have to enter a ROUTE command to reroute packets for the home network thru the RAS/VPN connection. Not a big deal, and can be handled in a batch file.

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