Not able to access company information after connected to VPN.

Problem: Not able to access company internal application and shared folders after connecting to particular company VPN. There wont be any problem connecting VPN. But after connecting VPN, when you try to access company internal application or shared folders, you will get error.

Cause: This problem occures becuase of DNS resolution issue.

Solution: In Windows XP Professional

-->Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

-->open hosts file with notepad.

-->Add interal ip(ip of company servers which you want to access from home using VPN)

and Server name.

--> Save and Close the file.

In Windows Vista

--> Open a notepad as administrator.

--> Click on File menu--> Click on 'Open' option.

--> locate the 'hosts' file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

--> Select hosts file and open.

-->Add interal ip(ip of company servers which you want to access from home using VPN)

and Server name.

--> Save and Close the file.

IP conflict

SOLUTION1: Select the network adapter from the taskpane or from Start-->Control Panel-->Network Connections Right click the adapter and choose Repair SOLUTION2 Go to command prompt. Issue the command cmd On the command windows that pops up issue the command ipconfig /release Wait for 10sec and issue the command ipconfig /renew Once the new ip is obtained issue the command ipconfig /registerdns Before doing all this things better to check whether the ip is obained automatically by DHCP or Manually configured.