"No logon server available"

[Buggeroo]

Hi

We recently purchased and installed a 3Com Superstack 3 firewall on our ADSL line. If I join a computer running w2k to our domain (w2k servers only), put it on another internet line and then try to connect using the Safenet/Soft-pk VPN client everything works fine except that I cannot open the shared folders on our fileserver (which is also PDC. Don't ask, not my decision . That is, I can ping everything and I can use Exchange MAPI. If i do a &quot;net use \\<computer/servername> <mypassword>&quot; i can gain access to other servers/workstations, but not before i do that and I have to do it for every single machine I want to connect to. When i try to connect to the PDC the error message reads &quot;There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request&quot; or in the case of mapped drives, sometimes &quot;Local device name already in use&quot;. I know that a lot of people have had a similar problem and solved it, so I hope someone can come up wioth an idea. The firewall handles the VPN so there are no RAS or the like.

 

[Buggeroo]

BTW If I logon locally everything is fine, browsing, My network places etc. (using WINS). If I run &quot;set&quot; in a command prompt i can see that if I start the VPN client and logoff/logon it will set the logonserver parameter to the correct servername, but it doesn't make any difference connectivity wise.