VPN help - struggling to setup properly

feenster99

feenster99

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Hi all,

I am having great trouble connecting to some of my clients networks via VPN. Below is a mini network diagram showing one in particular that is causing my problems.

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When connecting to the VPN from my PC (shown on the right at the bottom), I get to "Verifying username and password", but then the connection will time out with error 628. Another client is setup exactly the same, but I get error 800. The username/passwords are definately right - I think there must be something in the network setup that is causing the problem.

Can anyone help?

Matt

P.S Already posted this in Networking forum, but I think this might be more appropriate in here
 
800 is a server side, normally a network issue 628 is a client side, either the router not forwarding the vpn traffic to the vpn server, or no dhcp being fowarded or security settings.
best thing is to vpn to the server on the same lan if that works then its a router issue.
 
Ill try and connect to the VPN internally to see if that works.

When you say "no dhcp being forwarded" - could you explain what you mean? Should I be setting up a static IP address for my machine once it is on the clients network?

Cheers,
Matt
 
feenster99 said:
Ill try and connect to the VPN internally to see if that works.

When you say "no dhcp being forwarded" - could you explain what you mean? Should I be setting up a static IP address for my machine once it is on the clients network?

Cheers,
Matt
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it depends if you have a dhcp host installed on the server.
What you want to do it connect the pc to the same lan the vpn server is on, then start up the vpn client see if you can log on to the server if you do the vpn server is all good. then what you need to do is port forwarding on the router that is hosting the vpn server, there may be a tool to enable vpn server on router. Then connect the pc at home and eitehr put the web addy or the wan ip in and dial. one other thing make sure you can ping the router wan!
 
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Hi, I,m in the process of upgrading all of our vpn connections to bt broadband, and we seem to be getting a lot of bother to. The synptoms seem a like, the way we seem to be sorting it out is with a route add and -p command, at the command promt, using the ipconfig /all command to find the ipconfig and subnet mask. After running the command it works fine, I dont now if this information will help you?
 
Honestly I'm not too well versed with VPNs so if this doesn't help I apologize but have you tried using Hamachi? A couple of friends and I set it up amongst ourselves and it's fantastic. I don't know if this will serve your purposes however
 
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