I've recently setup a VPN server on Vista Ultimate. My friends and I have successfully connected to the VPN server but we are unable to access the other computers on the network. I am very new to VPN and am finding it quite difficult (especially since I have to be outside my network to test it). While on my network (not over VPN) I would usually use the "connect to server" function in the finder menu to access the files on my Vista computer over Serve Message Block (SMB). When me and my friends tried this over the VPN it would try to connect for a few minutes, eventually timing out. The whole purpose of this would be mainly to be able to play LAN games (AoE II/Starcraft) together while on different networks and also file sharing if possible. Is there a certain port that I need to enable? I am really lost and I can't find anything about it on google but i could just be using the wrong key words. Thanks for any help.
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can connect to VPN but cannot access computers on network
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I am not sure how Windoze does with VPN's, nor do I know how they deal with NAT, but this symptom is typical of the VPN address pool not being excluded from NAT rules---if it is being NATted back out along with the rest of the LAN, it then gets lost, as the packets that form the tunnel MUST remain un-NATted. I could show you how to do this in a Cisco device (PIX, ASA or IOS router with k9 image), but that's about it. I'm not very good with GUI based setups...
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