VPN connection trouble...

[magmo]

Hi

I have an VPN issue that I think is giving me trouble because windows xp pro sp2 somehow prevent this from working. Heres the deal...

I have Win XP Pro SP 2, F-Secure 5.55 Clien security and the VPN client from D-link. When I open up the VPN tunnel everythings fine, but I can't ping or connect to any remote recources. But If I try the same thing on a Win ME computer everything works fine. I can both ping and connect to remote shares. I then tryed to uninstall the f-secure software and then open up the VPN tunnel, but I still can't use any shares or ping.

So my question is, is there anything I can check that needs to be enabled on my Win XP machine, or what can be the trouble?


Regards

 

[bmdb]

Check out

http://www.softwarepatch.com

and read about the loopback patch. This may or may not help.

 

[magmo]

Hi


It did sound promising but I'm sad to say that it didn't work. Thanks anyway.

 

[bcastner]

Find out exactly what ports the tunnel might need. No matter whether the native XP SP2 firewall, or any other, you need to open those ports through the firewall. The ping issue is an ICMP setting issue, and you can resolve this in the Windows SP2 firewall or others by enable ICMP echo requests.

 

[linney]

SP2 and VPN problems
thread779-946978

Here are some links explaining setting up VPN and troubleshooting VPN's.

http://www.networkcomputing.com/1116/1116ws2.html

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/columns/tips/15tipsfo.asp

http://help.stargate.net/vpn/vpntrouble.shtml

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=vpn+windows+xp+problem+explorer

 

[magmo]

Hi


The ICMP echo request is enabled in my system, but I didn't find any IPSec option to enable in the exceptions list in the Windows Firewall, should it be there or is it something I manually need to add. If so what ports do I need to add?


One more thing, I also installed the greenbow vpn client and that program worked just fine even when I haven't made any changes at all to my system..... what does that mean?

Regards

 

[bcastner]

Talk to the vendor for F-secure as to SP2 and potential firewall issues.

http://support.f-secure.com/enu/corporate/supportissue/av-cs/vpn_interop.htm