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Hiya everyone.

I've been struggling for the better part of 3 hours now to set up a VPN.

A client wants a Windows 7 PC at her location to host a VPN Server, so that two laptops (off site) can connect to it to share files between two PCs.

Now, we've forward all the ports. We've set up the incoming connection, we can connect fine to the VPN (doesn't matter what PC, where we connect from). It says it's connected.

However, we cannot ping the two PCs. At all. I can dial a VPN connection out perfectly fine and that works 100%, but if I connect to the PC I cannot ping it at all.

First thing I noticed that was off was that both my PC and the Server are being assigned the same IP (It is currently set to 'Assign IP addresses automatically via DHCP')



HOWEVER, if I set up the IP Manually, or even get the actual PC to hand out IPs, I still can't ping. The Server can't even ping itself.

I'm at wits end - please please please can anyone help me? I've got the boss down my neck, holding ME responsible for this mess up.

I have Remote Desktop access to the VPN server, so I can change whatever I need to on that end.

Thanks.

Can anyone PLEASE Help me with this?

I'm desperate.

Okay - don't worry. We solved it.

I'm not sure what went wrong, and I don't understand the science behind it, but we had to manually set up our IPs for the VPN Clients, with the exception that we set the DNS IP to our router on this side.

Hi Dark.
Sorry for no response, the problem is, there are such a myriad of settings and configs to check on, it is virtually impossible to assist via a medium like this website.