Cannot browse virtual network but can connect HELP

[abbycar223]

Hi, this is driving me absolutely nuts. I am new to VPN so please be patient. I have a Windows Server 2008 system as a server connected to a work LAN on a Bigpong modem router. It can access the internal network fine. I have allowed access for VPN and PPTP ports through the router ok. My client machine at home is running Vista. It can connect to the VPN successfully but I am not able to browse any network folders or computers. It's all set up with a WORKGROUP network and PPTP. I have a static IP address for the work network from the ISP, I have a static IP address for the server on the LAN. What am I missing? How can I see the network and map the shared folders? Please help me?

 

[cmeagan656]

Is your client machine using a different IP scope than your LAN? If its using the same scope you'll have issues. If your using 192.168.1.xxx for your LAN try 192.168.0.xxx for your client machine.

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[abbycar223]

The server public ip is 58.134.11.xxx, the server's lan ip is static 10.0.0.x. My client ip is 192.16.0.x. So this shouldn't conflict from what i have read.
However, when I do successfully connect to the vpn and click on the details of the connection, is has both the client and the server ip as 10.0.0.2 - why would this be when both are set to different ip addresses?

 

[cmeagan656]

Once you connect to the VPN then you will have a LAN IP address however it shouldn't be the same IP address as your server.

You need to set the VPN to issue IPs in a slightly different range than your local LAN.

We use -

192.168.0.1 - Gateway
192.168.0.10 - 192.168.0.39 - Servers
192.168.0.40 - 192.168.0.49 - Printers
192.168.0.50 - 192.168.0.59 - Mail servers (we only have one mail server at the moment, but there's room for expansion)
192.168.0.100 - 192.168.0.199 - Clients
192.168.0.200 - 192.168.0.224 - VPN

Before anyone mentions it, I know that 192.168.0.xxx isn't the best address scheme for an office as that's what most home networks use however I inherited the addressing and it is easier to change the home network addressing for the few users who do VPN in.

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[abbycar223]

Can you explain how to set the VPN to issue IPs in a different range to my local LAN? Not sure how to go about doing this. That does make sense though - thank you. much appreciated

 

[cmeagan656]

I've never installed a VPN server on Windows Server 2008. We have our VPN server on our hardware firewall. We're a 2003 domain and I don't have access to a 2008 server. This TechNet article might contain some helpful information.


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