>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 don't have XP SP2 to work with here so my help will be limited.\
Rather than trying to map a drive, can you browse the remote system(s) through Windows Explorer/My Network Places?
Regards. Al
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