Windows VPN Problems Can ping everything but the VPN host.

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Ade Wright

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Trying to setup a VPN so that we can access work files from home.

Work Machines are on 192.168.1.x (The server and VPN Host is 192.168.1.1)

Home machine is on 192.168.0.x

The VPN host is set to dish out 192.168.1.200 to 204, access to local lan is ticked.

Work machines behind a BT router, with dyndns enabled.

I can connect just fine to the VPN, and the VPN dishes me out an IP of 192.168.1.200 (as expected)

I can ping the router (192.168.1.254) and i can access it's setup page via a browser (great)

I can also ping every single printer and pc.

BUT ! I cannot ping 192.168.1.1 (the VPN server) or access any of it's shares. Why?

 
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check the windows firewall, network and sharing settings on 192.168.1.1 (if network type is set to public, change it to private, turn off firewall temporarily for troubleshooting, make sure both client and server are on the same workgroup/homegroup)
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is the VPN server a windows machine?
 
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check the windows firewall, network and sharing settings on 192.168.1.1 (if network type is set to public, change it to private, turn off firewall temporarily for troubleshooting, make sure both client and server are on the same workgroup/homegroup)
 
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forgot to mention use IP address instead of hostname, DNS may not work correctly over a VPN

ping 192.168.1.1
and try to access shared folders like this
\\192.168.1.1\share name

 
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Ade Wright

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Tried turning off firewall. Doesn't work.

If i look in network and sharing it lists 2 networks. One for my home network, which is private. And one for RAS dialin which is public. But i see no way of changing that to private. Could this be the problem?
 
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yeah, it could.
left click network icon (bottom right) -> network settings -> homegroup -> see if you can change it from there
 
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