TheBoss

Ok bud, we can get this resolved very easily.

Now that you have Vista setup to accept VPN tunels, you have to make sure
you computer is reachable from the outside (internet). I will take into
belief that you are using some kind of router in your home since users can
ping your public IP but they are not able to connect it means that the router
(Cable/DSL modem) is responding to the ping, not your computer.

Tell me more about your network configuration; what kind of internet service
you have, if it is a Cable or DSL modem, are they connected directly into
your computer or do you have a small network at home, etc.

Usually all broadband access performs a NAT from your computer to the
internet; this is to prevent having your computer a public IP exposed to the
world at all times, and also to provide internet access to more than 1
computer; this also provides you security since the router usually have a
firewall.

Internet --> (Public IP) DSL/Cable Modem (Private IP) --> Home-Computers

If you are a techie, go to your router configurations and make sure that the
port used by Vista VPN is being "redirected" or "forwarded" to the LAN IP of
your computer which should be something like 192.x.x.x

You do NOT need to turn off your firewall to do this.

Like I said, tell me the details on your internet connection and your IP
configuration in your computer and/or network and I can tell you how to
finish the configuration for you to share the folder.

"Spaz" wrote:

>
> "Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3FE369CD-A60D-4D00-9D0E-5819D061689F@microsoft.com...
> > something like;
> >
> > \\192.168.10.100\MyPubFolder
>
> Thanks. I gave that a try from several locations but couldn't get it to
> work at all. They can get a return ping on my address but that's all.
> Can't connect to the folder. I turned off the firewall and made sure the
> public folder was shared, not sure what else I can do. Have you tried doing
> this?
>
>