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Nivian

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Hi everyone and thanks for the help in advance.

PC A(Office)

Desktop running Win7 ultimate 32 bit
Router : Billion 800VGT

PC B(Home)

Laptop running Win7 home professional 32 bit
Router: Netgear

I have followed online instructions to get the VPN connection at my office, I used PC A as the server and when connecting on PC B I used the IP of PC A. That worked fine as I was connected to the LAN at the office.

The issue arises when trying to connect from home with PC B. How do i achieve this?
 
You would need a public IP (dyndns or equivalent could be used) availabe for the Router at the office, then do forwarding of the VPN to PC A and allow the required ports through the firewall. Then connect to the VPN via the public IP

What type of VPN though then can help with the specific ports?
 
Nivian said:
Hi everyone and thanks for the help in advance.

PC A(Office)

Desktop running Win7 ultimate 32 bit
Router : Billion 800VGT

PC B(Home)

Laptop running Win7 home professional 32 bit
Router: Netgear

I have followed online instructions to get the VPN connection at my office, I used PC A as the server and when connecting on PC B I used the IP of PC A. That worked fine as I was connected to the LAN at the office.

The issue arises when trying to connect from home with PC B. How do i achieve this?
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Tip* techies love error messages / logs
Have you forwarded the necessary ports on the router (commonly 1723) and made sure that incoming connections are set ?
 
TheGrove said:
You would need a public IP (dyndns or equivalent could be used) availabe for the Router at the office, then do forwarding of the VPN to PC A and allow the required ports through the firewall. Then connect to the VPN via the public IP

What type of VPN though then can help with the specific ports?
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I would just like to connect to my office PC from home. The office PC incoming connections is setup as follows.

Network connections : new incoming connection : user : through the internet : TCP/IPv4, file and printer sharing, Qos packet : computer name

There is an icon for Incoming Connection : No clients connected


Ports on my billion800vgt are forwarded as follows : PPTP Always On tcp Ext Port 1723 - 1723 Int Port 1723 - 1723 10.0.0.39

On my laptop : setup new connection : connect to work place : use internet : asks for internet address so im not sure what to put in there

what now ???
 
The address it's asking you is the IP address for the network you want to connect to. That would be the WAN IP address in your Billion router at the office. You'll need to port forward port 1723(pptp) to the office PC, in the Billion at your office. I'm assuming you have the office PC setup to receive/allow pptp connections. The WAN IP address changes, so you'll need to use a service like no-ip or dyndns.org. Go to www.dyndns.org and register there. Your Billion router at the office should have a sub menu where you can enter these DynDns details so that it associates the hostname(hostname.dyndns.org) to your current IP at the Office.

You then enter the hostname.dyndns.org into the field on your laptop where it's asking for "internet address".

Hope this helps. Good luck.
 
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The PC at the office has a static ip which i have used when forwarding port 1723. I have st up a host at no-ip and i am using their software to to enable the hostname. Im at home now but my cousin is still at the office, if i use the browser and ftp://hostname i can view the drive very easily but i get ''The remote connection was not made because the attempted VPN tunnels failed. The VPN server might be unreachable. If this connection is attempting to use an L2TP/IPsec tunnel, the security parameters required for IPsec negotiation might not be configured properly.'' when trying to create a VPN connection. For internet connection i just use the hostname and then input my user and password but thats the error i get.
 
Any recommendations on how to set this up without using VPN?
 
Use VPN (get it to work first), but just RDP to the pc/server and work on the office pc if that is possible, so no Pastel traffic is going over the VPN...
Maybe that's a option...
 
DanH said:
Single Laptop to Single PC, why not just use TeamViewer?
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+1

Though it may begin to limit your sessions to 5min if using the "free for non-commercial use" regularly.

In that case LogMeIn Hamachi together with VNC works well too.
 
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Does the work router have any settings that mentions to allow the protocoll GRE (value 47) with in port 1723 ?
enable it and try again.

GRE47 is a show stopper for many PPTP attempts.
 
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