Vista: VPN and Network Connections
I have been working on Vista now for about 6 months and I have found a problem. The company that I work for takes care of network for small companies. We regularly connect to our client's networks using Microsoft and Cisco VPN connections and then RDP to servers to make changes. I have tested this at my office and at home where I have my own network and the bug rears its head every time.
Here is the setup:
Logon ontoyour local ADnetwork
Create a network mapping to a drive on the server.
Make sure the network mappings are created and you can access the data
Create a VPN connection to another network
Configure the VPN not to use gateway on the remote network
Open the VPN connection
Try and access any of the local network drives that you were able to access earlier
You will not be able to access the local network drives until you close the VPN conneciton to the other network. What seems to be happening is Vista is using the credentials that are used to open the VPN connection to the remote network to access the local network connection and fails authentication. I came to this conclusion because every so often I am given the network logon screen and it has the username used to connect to the remote network.
None of this happens if you open a Cisco VPN tunnel.
October 3rd, 2007 4:38am