Hi Al.

I have no idea if the VPN connection is *actually* working when the firewall is ON... I am just going by its "connected" message. The enxt thing I want to do is map the drive and that fails.
The above is a 'standard' MS-styled VPN connection.

I have another VPN connection through a Cisco facility (via software here, to there) that also says it connects OK, but when I startup RDC it always reports that the connection was broken after appearing to 'just start' RDC (the little tan bar at the top appears, then wait until fail.

Both of these work perfectly on my non-SP2 system. The second above doesn't work even with the firewall disabled.

I'm no good at Google, and didn't find anything when I tried.

thanks for any ideas you may have on this.

cheers
>>I have a VPN connection defined and it connects properly.
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>>However, when I want to map a drive through that connection it works fine when I have the FIREWALL turned OFF but it fails immediately that I turn on the firewall!@!##!
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>>I see that there are ways to make exceptions in the firewall feature but I have no idea what I would "except" when it comes to mapping a network drive. The VPN connection is itself in the exceptions list, for what that's worth.
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>>Can anybody advise what I have to do to get this thing to work with the firewall active???
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>Hmm... my understanding of VPNs is that they encapsulate all other protocols. So, if your VPN is working, all functions that go through it should work as well.
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>Are you certain your VPN is working at all when the firewall is active? Can you do something else besides mapping a drive successfully?