Any help is better than none.

I tried to see what My Network Places showed but it showed nothing related to the VPN.

Since I was setup as Administrator with NO password, I also set myself a password and rebooted. Still no joy.

It's obviously related to SP2 (both problems), the mapping also directly related to the firewall. My bet is that I need to set something somewhere but I haven't a clue what or where.

cheers

>>Hi Al.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Both of these work perfectly on my non-SP2 system. The second above doesn't work even with the firewall disabled.
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>I don't have XP SP2 to work with here so my help will be limited.\
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>Rather than trying to map a drive, can you browse the remote system(s) through Windows Explorer/My Network Places?