SIMS over VPN

[Tyiell]

Hi,

Do you need to make changes to the connect.ini file for Sims to work over a VPN connection?

Our connect.ini in school looks like this and is held on the sims share (T:\)

[SIMSConnection]
ServerName=sims-01\SIMS2005f
DatabaseName=sims
CommandTimeout=100000

It works ok at the school, but over the VPN I get the "login error: reason 0" problem, which I have read can be down to a dodgy connect.ini. Since it works in house, I'm wonerding if we need to change it? I have tried swapping "sims-01" for the ip address, and adding a line at the top "server=ipaddress". Didn't work

Any thoughts?

[LosOjos]

Have you mapped your SIMS drives on the VPN client?

[FN-GM]

We didnt need to change the conenct .ini

[3s-gtech]

Nope, our connect.ini looks like that and works on VPN with a mapped SIMS drive.

[Tyiell]

Have you mapped your SIMS drives on the VPN client?

Yeah, I've mapped the drive and opened it before running Sims...

[Tyiell]

We didnt need to change the conenct .ini

Nope, our connect.ini looks like that and works on VPN with a mapped SIMS drive.

Darn. I really don't get why the hell it can't connect!!!

[matt40k]

Any reason it's sims2005f?

Is the firewall open for * not just the subnet?

[3s-gtech]

What does the SIMS.ini in the Windows folder have in it?

[glennda]

You didn't say, but I'm presuming you can ping the server?

Possibly DNS?
Try

nslookup sims-01

and see what comes back.

Yeah my guess would be DNS