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Thanks JKusch... I'm still very open to additional ideas :) -Jake

Another Questions if anyone is still watching this post... I have one laptop having connectivity problems with the VPN. Win2K Pro, Logs into Domain at work, Pseudo-logs onto Domain at home(cashed credentials), Authenticates and establishes a connection to the VPN server, I can see the...

I am in need of creating a Data Dictionary for my SQL Server Database and I have nothing right now. Does anyone know of a poor man's tool that can kick out a rough DD with out much input? Or is there a way to do it with SQL Server? Please I'm in a bind! -Thank you, Jake

Many thanks..... This is great advise.... -Jake

Alex...you're the man! Thanks for your help, the password policy is excellent(although the boss will probably gripe). I will just allow 1723 traffic to pass to that port for added security. Correct me if I am wrong...hackers use port sniffers to gather info on your password and then use...

Thank you Matt and Alex... I think that I will only have 1723 traffic to the VPN public IP. Matt I have reduced the number of ports to the max number of users using VPN(still if one port can be hacked then what is the difference if I have 5 or 100?) Keeping it updated is a great idea(not that...

I have just installed a VPN W2K server with two NICs one to my private LAN and one connected to our T1 with a public IP for the Remote VPN clients to connect to. I have 20 or so PPTP ports accepting incoming connections only from my Active Domain Enabled User Accounts, with W2K configured as a...

Matt...Great news that works...(for our XP Pro machines)...still not working with our 2000 Pro computer...any more ideas? The XP machines work like a charm! Users are very happy... Another question regarding security...I have the VPN server with 2 nics and have run the RRAS manual setup...what...

WE will give that a run tonight....thanks Matt! -Jake

Up and Running! That solved my connectivity problems...Thanks for the Hosts file edit... Believe it or not...now we are having problems with our work laptops which log onto the domain here at the office...(%DOMAIN%.local)...what setting or logon should they use at home to see our work domain...

Cool...I'll post my reply tomorrow of how it goes tonight with the Hosts file edit! Thanks for your advice, Jake

One other thing I discovered on last Friday was NAT...My T1 connection comes in through a Cisco 1700 Router administered by my ISP(I don't have access to configure it) and realized that it uses NAT on one of our public IP addresses. We have a serries of 6 public IP addresses, the first is used...

Thanks Matt! I will try that tonight... Sincerely, Jake

I've never edited a hosts file...what do I add and where? I see a hosts and a lmhosts which one do I edit and what do I add? In my hosts file it looks like this: # localhost: Needs to stay like this to work 127.0.0.1 localhost # KaZaA related: 127.0.0.1 desktop.kazaa.com etc etc etc...

Ok I can successfully ping IP addresses on the domain but if I try to ping by name it cannot resolve the ip address...what do I do next?