I connect to my work pc from home using company specified Nortell VPN and pcAnywhere. I just upgraded my computer from win98SE/pcAnywhere 8.0 to winXPhome/pcAnywhere 10.0. When I start pcAnywhere session, it keeps giving me an error tha says "could not find requested host". I set up pcAnywhere exactly as it was on 8.0, What can be causing this problem? Any help you lend would be highly appreciated!
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pcAnywhere and VPN
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RussellWilliams
IS-IT--Management
I'm confused - is the host running at work or at home?
Why are you running a host at home then?
Why are you running a host at home then?
maitakeboy
Technical User
WinXPHome cannot connect to a domain, so if your office network is a domain you might have trouble creating a VPN connection, or once created, you might have trouble communicating to anything on the office LAN because you are not authenticated and don't get an IP from your DHCP.
Serbtastic
Vendor
SOKA, put your work computer's name and IP address in the local hosts file on your home computer, and you should be able to connect.
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