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Hello, Reading your message inspired me to try out the MSU Central VPN access from home here in Grand Rapids, MI. Using a Comcast cable internet account, I successfully connected to the VPN, and attached to my AFS storage space. The way I understand the VPN is working is it routes anything .msu.edu through the VPN virtual Ethernet adapter and then anything else, through your standard Comcast internet access. I was able to access my afs space via \\cc-pubafs-4.cl.msu.edu, which is the hostname of the AFS server, which then seems to route the request through the VPN, instead of just your primary internet connection. Hope this helps. Chris Harper Tech Support University Relations Michigan State University 1330 S. Harrison East Lansing, MI 48823 [log in to unmask] A Division of University Relations providing the MSU community with brand-centered, results-oriented, communications solutions -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Gorentz Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 3:09 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MSUNAG] AFS access from off-campus Is anyone using the VPN successfully from off-campus for access to AFS space? We haven't been able to get it to work here at the Kellogg Biological Station. The ACNS helpdesk says to use OpenAFS if we can't get VPN to work. We can probably do that, but it would be much nicer to use VPN. That way we'd have a common solution for all computers, and a solution that will also work for people to use from elsewhere to connect to our own file servers (once I have my own VPN concentrator in operation). No matter what we try, we get "the network path...could not be found". I've installed the client, made sure the proper host names are in place in the DNS panel, and have pointed to the WINS server at 35.8.2.25. We've also enabled plain text passwords. I am not at all an experienced user of VPNs, much less a manager of them, so maybe I'm missing something obvious. But given the response I got from the ACNS helpdesk, I'm wondering if *anyone* has gotten this to work. John Gorentz