Re: VPN - why do I need IP address

1. your VPN server is not handing out to the client, the correct DNS server for your connection.
2. your VPN server is not handing out the proper search domain for DNS to the client.
3. your client is not part of the domain so it is not looking for the fully qualified domain or the search domain is not correct from number 2.


Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 9:15 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: [PCTECH] VPN - why do I need IP address

All,

Ignorance question. When I use our VPN to "get to the office" from my home
or elsewhere, why do I have to use IP address (192.168.0.xxx) for RDP
instead of being able to use the server name?

Over the years we've been through 3 different VPNs and this has been true
of all of them. I have always thought that once I VPN'ed in, I was on the
LAN. Yet for RDP I always need to use IP address or it can't find the
server I want. Is it because the PC I am using remotely is not on the
office domain?