Cisco VPN issue

[Seal23838]

I am confused.
I setup a VPN connection at home to allow me and my wife to remote access to our file shares while at school. To test, I connected at a friend's house and initiated the Cisco VPN Client. I connected successfully and was able to gain access to my network shares. Friend IP schema is 172.16.XX.XX. My ip schema is 10.0.69.X. VPN address pool is 10.0.70.X (Class C Subnet on both).

Where I am getting confused is when I try from school or work. Both the university and work are running on a 172.16.XX.XX addresses. I initiate the VPN client and it does connect which means both phase 1 and 2 are connecting however I can not connect to my network shares. I can not ping the devices.

What am I missing.

Even tried to place static routes in cover all my basis.

Please help


Thanks

 

[burtsbees]

Does the 1GBps icon pop up at the bottom right (assuming you are using Windows)? What does ipconfig /all show when you are connected from school/work? If you are connected, you are connected---it does not matter what IP scheme anyone has---you connect to your network at home, whether it's from 192.168.x.x, 172.16.x.x, 172.29.x.x, or whatever---once you're connected, you are no longer on that network. Or, you can go to network connections in control panel to see if the VPN LAN connection is up. Really sounds like a firewall issue from school and work.

Burt