Trouble setting up VPN connection..

techguy

Hey Guys,

I'm having some trouble setting up a VPN connection at home. I've setup Windows 7 to accept incoming connections.

I have forwarded port 1723 via my router to the VPN pc.

I'm using Ubuntu to connect and it has told me it has establised a connection. (more like it shows a padlock and didn't tell me it failed)

When in this state I don't have any connectivity to anything except I can access the router of the client internet connection.

What could be happening here? I'm using a Linksys WRT54G. Are there extra settings I need to alter?

This is my 3rd or 4th time trying to do this to no avail.. any help is much appreciated!!

Thanks..

FSL

What VPN software are you using?

techguy

Just Windows 7.. setting up a new network connection to receive incoming connections.

Probably not ideal but just wanted to see if it would work.

I tried to setup OpenVPN on Ubuntu but it's a little tricky..

shakel

techguy wrote: »

Hey Guys,

I'm having some trouble setting up a VPN connection at home. I've setup Windows 7 to accept incoming connections.

I have forwarded port 1723 via my router to the VPN pc.

I'm using Ubuntu to connect and it has told me it has establised a connection. (more like it shows a padlock and didn't tell me it failed)

When in this state I don't have any connectivity to anything except I can access the router of the client internet connection.

What could be happening here? I'm using a Linksys WRT54G. Are there extra settings I need to alter?

This is my 3rd or 4th time trying to do this to no avail.. any help is much appreciated!!

Thanks..

So the windows 7 box is behind your Linksys and you have forwarded po 1723 to the Win7 IP?
Have you enabled PPTP/VPN passthrough on the linksys?

n0brain3r

I had this too I think it's more to do with routing after the VPN is established. Connect your VPN open a console and run ifconfig you should see an interface listed with an IP on your Win7 LAN if so it's the same issue I had and fixed it by tinkering with the default route option in the VPN setup on the Ubuntu machine

techguy

shakel wrote: »

So the windows 7 box is behind your Linksys and you have forwarded po 1723 to the Win7 IP?
Have you enabled PPTP/VPN passthrough on the linksys?

Yep, all passthroughs are enabled and Port 1723 is (UDP/TCP) is forwarded to the Win7 box.

n0brain3r wrote: »

I had this too I think it's more to do with routing after the VPN is established. Connect your VPN open a console and run ifconfig you should see an interface listed with an IP on your Win7 LAN if so it's the same issue I had and fixed it by tinkering with the default route option in the VPN setup on the Ubuntu machine

Ok, i'm gonna try that now. I'm assuming your taking about the routes button under the IPv4 settings tab. I'm not sure what settings to input but i'll do a little trial and error

Also, I just noticed on the Win7 box that it picked up the connection and asked me if it was home/public/office etc.. Maybe it won't allow connections until this has been set. Gonna try this first..

Thanks guys..

techguy

Ok, so i've connected my Ubuntu box to to the Win7 via VPN.

I can't connect/ping any local services/machines over VPN yet though, all I can do is browse the web.

If I try and ping 192.168.1.123 I get a reply from 192.168.1.106 saying destination host unreachable.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

RoyalMarine

did you configure the win7 machine to act as a dhcp for incomming connections?

wat are you trying to give access to?

when i set up a vpn, i shared a few folders, gave permissions as needed.

when the vpn connected, i shared internet access and then map network drive to the shared folders.