VPN / IE5.X Problems

[throft]

Has anyone here set up a VPN and tried to access it using IE5? Here where I am working we have a VPN set up that we access through an IBM Global Dialer (some kind of ISP), we then start up the VPN, which is a Nortel Networks Extranet Client program. IE is set to run through an automatic configuration file which locates the proxy server to run from. This all works fine under IE4 SP2, Netscape, Opera, etc. However, when I try to run it from IE5+, all it does is time out looking for the websites. Has anyone run into this problem before? Any ideas?

Thanks!
Ben

 

[ctbnetman]

Automatic proxy configuration did work with IE 4.x but would not work for us in IE 5.x. We had to use manual proxy config, in the ISP specific dial-up settings, and all problems went away.

ctbnetman

 

[cazulp]

Throft
Did you try ctbnetman's suggestion. When using IE through a VPN (I use the Nortel Client as well) you have to configure the dialer settings:
In IE select Tools/Internet Options/Connections

Highlight the dialup connection you are using and click settings. Now you can experiment with proxies enabled or disabled. In my case I have to setup the proxies to match exactly those which I use in the office off the Corporate Lan.
cazulp