General discussion
-
Topic
-
No luck at establishing a VPN
LockedI?ve been attempting to set up a VPN from my office to my home for a couple of months now. I have gone from people who say they know how to do it, to professionally paid personnel and still have no connection. You may ask ?Did the paid help do anything?? Well, I guess they did- they said that I have a VPN tunnel with a preshared key encryption on my business end. They gave me instructions on how to set up an IPSec on my home end. I?m going nuts and spending way too much money and time on this but I must be able to work at home for an extended period of time due to family.
Here?s what I have: on my business end I have a dell server that has a DSL modem and a Linksys BEFSX 41 router with a VPN endpoint. My desktop computer is connected to the server. At home I have three computers linked wireless to a Belkin Pre-N wireless router that states it allows VPN passthrough (I just bought this router because many told me to upgrade from my Dell 1184 wireless router). Anyway, I switched out the routers, configured my computers to it and all is running well at home. But I still cannot log into my office computer. The office server?s DSL connection has static IP when my home doesn?t. I know this isn?t new technology and I?m not so dumb to be unable to follow direction, it just seems I cannot get clear direction to make this connection. Is there anyone out there that can assist me? All desktops at both home and office are WinXP SP2. Going ballistic in SoCal.
Thanks