Vista - VPN established but cant see my drives or network

I may be missing something here: like a server but I've read all I could
about VPN's and I havent found any answer. I have a home network set up and
working well and I established a VPN connection through my wireless router
that I access my home machines while at work. Two PC's on the home network:
1 XP and the other Vista home Ultimate 64 bit. The VPN connects to the Vista
PC. Once i connect I can't do anything!! I can't see the drive even though I
have it mapped. I know I cant run Remote Desktop Connection to see the
machine b/c it's a Vista PC.

How do I actually take advantage of the VPN I've worked so hard in setting
up? I want to see my full network and have all resources available to me
from a remote location. Do I have to have a server?

Can you ping the remote computer by IP? Or this troubleshooting may help.

Vista VPN IssuesPost Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: Vista
VPN issues, Reply with quote ... Info: Step by step troubleshooting VISTA
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"rwhirl" <rwhirl@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I cant ping the computer that is hosting the VPN directly b/c it has an IP
address on my internal network of 192.168.0.106. Once i Connect from a
remote location to that PC through a VPN connection and run ipconfig I see an
IPv4 adress of 169.254.xxx.xxx (can't recall all of it). The IP address that
I CAN ping is the ISP assigned static IP address i have for my service. I
use port-forwarding on my Dlink wireless router to forward port 1723 TCP and
500 UDP, I also have to use the virtual server settings of the router for
port 1723 (public) assigned to the 1723 port (private) in order to be able to
complete the password authentication process ( I hope that makes sense).

I will have to read through all of the various posts on the website you
suggested. I do receive a error 53 from the remote location when I try to net
view.



"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote:

Posting the result of ipconfig /all may help.

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"rwhirl" <rwhirl@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hostname: Gateway (my laptop used to VPN into Vista PC)
Primary DNS Suffix : (blank)
Node Type: Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled: No
WINS Proxy Enabled: No

DHCP Enabled : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled: Yes
IPv4 Address: 169.254.251.69(preferred)
Subnet Mask: 255.25.255.255
Default Gateway: (blank)
NetBIOS over TCPIP: Enabled

"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote:

I do receive a system 53 error when I run net view \\MACDADDY-PC or net view
\\74.184.93.141

MACDADDY-PC is the Vista PC that I VPN into from my remote location (at
work) the IP address above the LAN IP where the VPN PC is located. I know
this must be a firewall issue but all ports 1723, 53, 445, and 500 are open
on the wireless router. I'm still stumped!

"rwhirl" wrote:

sorry missed a key port, ports 137-139 are also open on the router.

"rwhirl" wrote: