VPN gives read-access only

[mabel2]

With my Windows XP computer I connect to the office through a VPN connection without problems. Setting up VPN on the computer of a colleague, also running XP (and also continuously updated), I set up a VPN connection, but this is read-only - even when I use my own credentials. I carefulle examined all the
properties on the client side - there is absolutely no difference between the two setups, and yet...
Hope someone can help me; thanx in advance!

 

[noidea_77]

That's a bit difficult to answer without any info about the vpn software and the vpn server. You may have a firewall in place, that has mac address filtering. Do you get at least an error message?

 

[mabel2]

That's a bit difficult to answer without any info about the vpn software and the vpn server. You may have a firewall in place, that has mac address filtering. Do you get at least an error message?

You're right of course; I should have provided more details.
Th VPN software is, on both sides, the built-in windows software. The server-firewall does not use mac-address filtering. On the client, I tried it with firewall disabled - same result.
I do hope someone can shed some light on this...

 

[noidea_77]

It might be a security problem with the files system on the target computer. I don't know, if it's the VPN user or the system account or the guest account, that needs the read/write rights on the target file system.

 

[mabel2]

It might be a security problem with the files system on the target computer. I don't know, if it's the VPN user or the system account or the guest account, that needs the read/write rights on the target file system.

But if it is a rights issue, how come the same user (me) has read-write access from another system, using VPN in the exact same setup: from a small home network (well - as far as I can see, anyway; obviously there is a difference SOMEWHERE, but I just can't see it.) My username+password are readily accepted; I DO hope this means it's authenticated🙂

 

[noidea_77]

Sorry, i'm running out of ideas. Is it a domain environment and one machine registered to the domain, and the other is not?