Re: VPN & PPPoE

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> From: Paul Gaskin <paul () midwesttechnologies com>
> I am new to the list and I'm not sure if this even falls into this
> ategory but I'm getting desperate!
> We have set up a VPN and it seems to work fine everyone can log on and
> move around the network and send and receive email.
> One person though... on a DSL using PPPoE can not send e-mail. we have
> tried everything... has anyone run into this problem?
> the user is on a Windows XP laptop connected to a Linksys wireless
> router (Using PPPoE). and Outlook for E-mail.

1) Yes, this is basically on the wrong list, but most of us are happy to 
help you anyways.  Check out freelists.org, they have lots of good admin 
lists.
2) First, check out the XP firewall settings to make sure you're allowing 
port 25.
3) Check your Outlook settings to make sure it correctly points to your SMTP 
server
4) Is anyone else connected using the same router?  If they are, is theirs 
working?  If not, try another box to see if you can replicate the problem.
4) Try a different router, or a cat5 connection instead of wireless
5) Is the user having any other network problems?

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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