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by super_it_mom

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I am trying to set up a VPN at my office. I have the W2K Small Business Server set up. I have the LinkSys VPN router set up. Just when I thought I had it set up completely, I could not get through from home. I would really appreciate it if someone with good VPN experience would help me, please. I do not know what I'm missing, and it's driving me crazy!

Thank you!

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by mike jones

You need to allow port 1723 incoming and outgoing access at both sites. This is assuming that you are using pptp as the security protocol.

Try logging on with an invalid username or password as see if you get a prompt to change the username, this normally means you have access, but are blocking outgoing traffic.

Possibly also port 47, but not normally needed unless you are using a fancy linux firewall or the such.

Please post what error messages you are getting. I assume that you aregetting a timed out error message.

Also, disable any personal firewalls on your home pc while you are testing.

by super_it_mom

From home, I am getting: Error 678:There was no answer.

Should I be using the WAN IP address of the rounter or the gateway address?

by super_it_mom

I opened the ports on the router, and still get the same error message. I'm not sure I have them open on the client side, though. I am using a Linksys VPN router, which is connected to my W2K server. Linksys makes the client set up a security policy in secpol.msc. But, from home, I do not have a static IP, which the policy asks for. There has to be a way in so I can see my files from home.

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