How to use a router provided VPN?

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From: Marty Hewes (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:13:13 -0800

I've got a T1, a D-Link DI-804HV VPN firewall/router, a
peer-to-peer network and an XP Pro machine that acts as a
workstation and our workgroup server at the office. At
the house, I've got another XP Pro, and a WIN98 SE machine
on another peer-to-peer network behind another DI-804HV.
The DI-804HV can provide encrypted VPN tunnels. I've got
a tunnel defined, complete with IKE and IPSec proposals.
D-Link says I'm finished when I can ping a machine on the
opposite subnet, which I can do. The Router logs also
indicate that the tunnel is up.

So how do I use this? The goal is to be able to run multi-
user software applications on the home computers using the
data that is in the XP Pro box at the office, just like we
would from other peer-to-peer machines at the office.

Now I'm assuming that since the encryption is being done
by the firewall, and I can already ping the far end subnet
machines, this is not a standard Windows type VPN dialled
connection, which does it's own encryption. I have no
idea how to go about getting Windows to use this tunnel.
I've tried making the workgroup names the same on both
ends and browsing. No luck. How do I map a drive, or
otherwise enable a machine at one end to use data at the
other end? The subnets do not have overlapping IP
addresses. One starts with 192.168.0.1, the other is
192.168.1.1. Will the machines have to have common subnet
addresses?

TIA,
Marty

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