Topic: i bays

[maccamob]

All
im a novice with esmith, but extremely impressed, i have set it up as a server - gateway and allows incoming vpn connections, it has 1 admin account and 1 user account (active). when i log into the sme server via a vpn connection the correct dhcp and dns settings are given to the client machine so i guess ive set that up right, email sending and retrieval works fine. ive st up a new i-bay as a default file store but when the connected vpn client trys to write to that i bay acces is denied. the client isnt a memeber of the domain SME's domain. do i have to have a user account on the machine with the same credentials as set on the SME server? the client is a win2k box
any help is much appreciated
also is it possible to ad an extra physical disk, then mount the disk annd use tat as the servers file store? as the present file store is using he servers system disc
many thanks
macca

[Ray Mitchell]

Dear maccamob

I found it better (necessary) to log on to the remote PC using the user/password combination that is setup in sme server.
When connecting via VPN the access rights are the same "as if" you were a local network user. Make sure you have set up the correct rights for the user, ie ibay owned by a group, user is a member of that group.
You should setup the user in both sme and the Win2K machines.
I've read here that you need Win2K SP2 for VPN to work correctly.

VPN works fine for me from Win95 & 98, (with DUN update to 1.4) keeping in mind the above, although a bit slow with std modem connection.
I'm about to try from a Win2K PC soon.

Regards
Ray Mitchell