Please help with VPN setup... I'm sure this is an easy question...

[WA2FAST]

Hello all. I am trying to VPN from my office back home. I have a Netgear RT311 router on the server side (at home) and a cable modem attached to it. I am trying to use the Windows XP VPN software... I created the VPN server at home, opened up 1723 on the router and foreworded it to the machine with the VPN server.

I have the Windows XP client trying to log in here at my office and I am not sure if I am doing this correctly. What I did was type in the IP of the WAN port on my router... in other words the IP of my cable modem. I have tried to ping it from work and I can ping that IP, when I try to connect, it connects but hangs up on "Verifying username and password..."

Am I doing this right? It seems like I should really be trying to connect to the actual computer on the other side of the router, not the router itself, but I don't know how to do that. Can someone please help me out here... I really would like to get this done soon. Thank you very much!

 

[MattWray]

It sounds like you have it setup correctly. I have a similar setup at my office. Cayman DSL Modem/router with port tcp port 1723 forwarded to the vpn server. If you get to the verifying username and password, it sounds like you are connecting the machine. Have you verified your account has dial-in permissions? I don't know about XP, but with 2k, under user properties, dial-in access must be enabled... Thanks,

Matt Wray

 

[smah]

It sounds like it's working correctly, but there is a username/password problem. My guess is that the client is sending your client username and password. Does the server have an account with that same username & password?

 

[darklordmaven]

If you look in your Event Log you will find that no valid certificate was found. It is a problem with communication and not USER/PASSWORD. If it were, it would prompt you to re-enter your username/password.

 

[EddieVenus]

You have to login using an account that exists on the machine you are trying to get into. you should also set the workgroup to the same thing too, in case you want to see it in network neighborhood. You need to have that user active on the server machine, as in it cannot be a disabled account. It should not be the guest account either as I have had troubles with that. Other than that it sounds like you have it set up right. Do you have the IPsec passtrough and PPTP passtrough open as well, this must be so if you can connect, but I am not sure how Netgear does it.

 

[WA2FAST]

I want to thank everyone that has helped me on this post. I looked into everything you guys said to look into and found that the signal was dropping at the firewall. I checked into it and what was happening was, it was connecting, and then it would authenticate on my (home) side, but the firewall wasn't letting the connection come back through to me from my home machine. That end of the internet connection is out of my hands, but I have a gentleman on that end that is working with me to get it up and running. Thank you all once again and I really appreciate all of your help!