My neighbor just started a small business. At his business location, he has an XP Pro desktop. The XP Pro machine is connected to one of 4 Ethernet switchports on a Netgear FVS114 VPN router. (It’s the only PC on his store network.) The FVS114’s “Internet” Ethernet port is in turn connected to the Ethernet port of a ZyXel DSL modem. The ZyXel’s hanging off of an ADSL circuit provisioned as a 3Mbps download/512Kbps upload. Everything works great at his store: Internet access is fine, and the XP Pro desktop performs swimmingly.
I configured his XP Pro store PC as a VPN server and defined a new VPN client connection on a PC at his home. The problem: he wants to be able to map a drive over the PPTP VPN connection from his home PC (which runs WinXP Home Edition rather than Pro) to the store’s XP Pro PC. Although we can start a VPN session from his home office PC with no problem, and although that session stays nailed up, our attempts to map a drive from his Home Edition PC to a shared folder on his store’s XP Pro PC (after the PPTP VPN session is established) consistently fail. (We just get a “not found” error every time.) Note that I can map a drive using PPTP with no problems from my test laptop (which is running XP Pro) from MY home office. I suspect XP Home Edition may be the culprit. I would appreciate any ideas re: the possible root cause. Thanks!
