Outlook 2003 and Nortel VPN

[Andrew Bowling]

Ever since I upgraded to Office 2003 I am unable to
connect to my exchange server when I am away from the
office. I have always been able to connect by way of our
Nortel VPN with previous versions of Office. I
understand there is a new protocal that allow connections
without using a VPN but I am currently the only person in
my office working with Office 2003 so we still need to
use VPN. Is there a setting I can change to allow me to
connect to the exchange server with a VPN. I am running
Windows 2000

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Outlook 2003 works fine via the Nortel Connectivity Client. What version of
the Nortel client are you using? Once you connect to work via the client,
can you ping the server by fully qualified domain name and IP address? Does
a nbtstat -a <servername> return a host not found?

Cheers
/neo

ps - I use version 4.86. You may discover that you have name resolution
issues. Adding the server name and ip address to the hosts and lmhosts
files may help with connectivity over the vpn client.