Hello Everyone,
After doing some searching for this issue, I have found something similar here -
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=41602.0 - but there are a few key differences with my scenario. I'll try to make it as brief as possible.
First I work for a smallish company that has three offices across two states, with a sales team that remotely connects from wherever they are via wifi, broadband cards, etc. The network address's are as follows - 10.100.2.0 (this is where the server I am having issues with is located), 10.100.142.0 (office #2), 10.100.149.0 (office #3) and 10.150.2.0 for remote connections. Each office has a private lan connected by permanent VPN tunnels in the firewalls at each location, and the remote users connect using Netscreen Remote VPN client, which gives them "local" access to the entire 10.100.2.0 lan.
I have been running a 7.0 server in each office for a couple of years and have always been able to remotely access the iBays as if I was sitting there locally. I did this by adding each network segment as a local network on each server, including the remote segment of 10.150.2.0. This has worked tremendously well the entire time the servers have been in service.
The time came to finally upgrade the hardware in the 10.100.2.0 server and move to the newest version of SME. I didn't do a traditional migration to the new system - I built a completely new server along side the old one, re-created user accounts, ibay's, etc. and then copied the data from the old server to the new server. After the "migration" was complete, I took the old server out of service and renamed the new server to match the old server name and reconfigured the IP to match so network mappings would again function correctly. I copied all of the settings from the old 7.0 server to the new 7.3 server, and everything has been working great for about five weeks.
However, I am now having a strange issue where you can connect to the VPN and access all of the iBays only if you are on a "dedicated" internet connection - i.e. wifi over my DSL at home works great. However, trying to connect w/a USB broadband card results in this error - Windows cannot access \\servername. Connecting to \\IPADDRESS gets the same results. I can however ping the address and host name and get reply's while using the broadband card. I can even log into the server manager, log in through telnet/ssh, and I can access other resources on the network all using the broadband card, just not iBays on the 7.3 server. I should also mention that the other offices, all connected through permanent VPN tunnels via T1's can also still access the server without issue.
To see if I was going crazy I brought the old server running 7.0 back online (glad I didn't wipe it yet!), and I can still connect to it over the broadband card as if nothing has changed. I can also connect to both using my home DSL connection. I have looked at the configs of both the 7.0 and 7.3 server side by side, and they are configured identically. I also get the same results from a WinXP or WinVista client, using the same broadband card and same DSL connection.
Any idea why 7.3 started discriminating against different connection types (or why it cares in the first place) and why 7.0 continues to work great?
Thanks in advance for your time, and I apologize if this is a double post that I have missed.
Travis
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