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Re: VPN Connection First of all thank you so much for taking out ur time to read so deeply into what i have posted
said by fms007:Per Modem/Router: Using both the USB and the eithernet port is not supposed to work since the connections are supposed to be one OR the other, not both. I am surprised you got an out connection at all doing this. Are you sure they can get a connection both at the same time? It's probably fighting over the connection. Since this router/modem is supposed to be a fully functional router device with NAT, my advice to you is to get a switch/hub to share 1 port. Doing otherwise is at your own risk but know if you don't, this could be a failing point right there I have a DSL 502T modem which has only one ethernet port and only one USB port...when i bought the router i got a USB cable..hence i have connected PC1 using ethernet port cable to the router and PC2 via USB cable to the router....as i think Dlink has given this USB cable for the purpose to be able to connect 2 PCs separately to access internet.
I tried to check if the PCs are fighting over the connection (that was a good point)...but i dont think so that they are fighting for the connection bcos i opened two webpages independently on both the PCs simultaneously and both opened easily.
said by fms007:Per VPN Workstation configs: Please describe the steps you did to setup both the VPN server and client. Also, please state the OS of each, and do an IP config/all and paste the results here in your reply. Both PCs have Win XP Pro installed on it. One Is PC1 and other is PC2 (both are equivalent to workstations....named them as SERVER and CLIENT for namesake only)
I have followed from this website to setup VPN server and VPN client for the below mentioned steps
»wireless.gumph.org/content/6/4/0···ser.html
To setup VPN Server on PC1
Start -> Control Panel.... Click on Network and Internet Connections.... Click on Network Connections.... Create a new connection.... New Connection Wizard click next to start.... Select Set up an advanced connection and click next to continue..... Select Accept incoming connections and click next to continue....Leave the boxes unticked on this next screen for "Direct Parallel (LPT1)" and just click next to continue.... Select Allow virtual private connections and click next to continue....
....You now need to pick which users are going to be allowed to vpn in. If you created a user earlier, then ensure that just that user is ticked, else pick which user you want to use - remember they need a secure password. Then click next to continue.....
Click next to continue on this Networking Software screen.... Click Finish to close the wizard as you have setup VPN on the server (PC1)
You should now see your new incoming connection in the Network Connections Window.
The last step is to right click on the Incoming connections icon and select properties, then go to the second tab Users and tick the Require all users to secure their passwords and data checkbox, and then click the OK button to close the dialog.
Setting up the VPN client On PC2
Start -> Control Panel.... click on Network and Internet Connections.... click on Network Connections.... Select the Create a new connection.... New Connection Wizard click next to start..... Select Connect to the workplace at my work and click next to continue..... Select Virtual Private Network as the connection type and click next to continue..... Give the new VPN connection a name and click next to continue..... (Here i named it VPN Client to Server).....select Do not dial the initial connection and click next to continue.....Now enter either the hostname your ISP has given you . If you don't have a static IP address, then it may be easier to use Dynamic DNS such as from dyndns.com to give you a static hostname for your dynamic address(here i entered the hostname i made at the DYNDNS free account, hostname....(server.dyndns.biz)....
Now click finish and your new VPN connection will be ready to use....
I m attaching my configuration setup of both my PCs with their ip addresses. |
