Re: Unable to get clients machines to communicate over VPN tunnel

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Hi Bill,

I've sent quite a detailed reply to Bob's message. It should contain the
answers to your questions. Please have a read through and let me know your
thoughts.

Thanks for your input.

Curtis.

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"Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
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> Is the VPN router the default gateway for each site? If it is, the VPN
> link should work like a simple (slow) IP router. If the VPN router is not
> the default gateway, you will need extra routing to get the traffic to the
> VPN router.
>
> Does each VPN router have a route to the subnet of the "other" site
> through the tunnel? Check the routing table when the connection is up.
>
> Curtis Fray wrote:
>> First of all I'll apologise in advance for cross-posting. I've put a
>> similar post in a <win2000.general> group but have not had a reply so
>> I'm hoping this designated RRAS group may be able to help me.
>>
>> Ok, I've set up a two-way VPN connection between between siteA
>> <192.168.184.0> and siteB <192.168.204.0>. Both sites have Windows
>> 2003 servers and XP Professional clients only.
>>
>> I can establish the tunnel without a problem. From the siteA server I
>> can ping the siteB server and all the siteB workstations by their
>> internal range. From siteB server I can do the same for siteA.
>> However, what I can't do is get the workstations from either site to
>> contact the corresponding site. If I do a TRACERT from a workstation
>> at siteA I can see it's routing to the siteA server, but it doesn't
>> go anywhere from there. SiteB workstations don't get any further than
>> the siteB server.
>> I've gone over the Microsoft article called "Vitual Private
>> Networking with Windows Server 2003: An Example Deployment" and
>> although I've set it up as per their recommendations (using PPTP
>> encryption) this has not resolved my problem.
>>
>> If anyone can offer me any help it would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Curtis.
>
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