VPN Access

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Can you clarify the scenario bit more?

XP provides in-built authenticaiton mechanism. Why do you need seperate
authentication server?


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"Jeff Ribbing" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:51dd01c49130$3de7b6b0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>I have two XP Home machines that I need to VPN through
> for file sharing. I have a Linksys BEFVP41 VPN router.
> The thing is, XP does not offer an authencation server.
> It works great with a server, but how do you get it to
> work with 2 client machines. I have tried everything. I
> have downloaded SSH Sentinel, and connected to the VPN
> router, but I was not able to ping anything behind the
> gateway? So I could not map a drive to a static IP
> address to access the files. Help I have spent so many
> man hours on this to try and figure it out.