VPN configuration issues

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trikjester

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Hello all, My question is why am I not able to access my file-servers when I connect to my Network over the internet through VPN. My vpn server is my windows 7 desktop. I'm able to connect to it because when I issue the ipconfig command I receive an IP address from the pool I specified when configuring the VPN server. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
 
trikjester said:
Hello all, My question is why am I not able to access my file-servers when I connect to my Network over the internet through VPN. My vpn server is my windows 7 desktop. I'm able to connect to it because when I issue the ipconfig command I receive an IP address from the pool I specified when configuring the VPN server. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm assuming you're at home, and behind a router, correct?
 
trikjester said:
you would be correct sir, I've enabled port forwarding on my router
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Have you disabled IPSec in your router configuration? I had an issue where my VPN client (for security reasons, or the VPN client was not IPSec compliant) could not pass through the router, unless IPSec was disabled.
 
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trikjester said:
As far as I know I was using PPTP in my router, not IPSec. Not sure if this matters or not.
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IPSec isn't the authentification of the VPN, it's a security feature sometimes automatically enabled in routers; it enables more than one VPN network to authenticate, but can cause issues. There should be something of a check box in the router config, that states "IPSec (VPN)".
 
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