Home VPN connection

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Hi everyone:

First off, thanks for your time!! Ok, I have a Linksys Wireless
WRT300N router. In my house, I have my main computer, my laptop, and
a netware server. I have the netware server running statically at
192.168.1.105, while the computer and laptop use DHCP. Anyways, I
think that when you connect to a VPN, don't you connect to a
computer? Well, primarily I want this so I can connect JUST to the
netware server, while I'm at college.

I store all my important files on my netware server, and wondering if
there is a way I can simply connect to my router via VPN rather than
my parents computer. Is this possible? Thanks for any help you can
give me!
 
Hi everyone:

First off, thanks for your time!! Ok, I have a Linksys Wireless
WRT300N router. In my house, I have my main computer, my laptop, and
a netware server. I have the netware server running statically at
192.168.1.105, while the computer and laptop use DHCP. Anyways, I
think that when you connect to a VPN, don't you connect to a
computer? Well, primarily I want this so I can connect JUST to the
netware server, while I'm at college.

I store all my important files on my netware server, and wondering if
there is a way I can simply connect to my router via VPN rather than
my parents computer. Is this possible? Thanks for any help you can
give me!
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You need to check on a Netware group and not in this Windows XP
group. Netware is not Windows and should have it's own method of
setting up a VPN.

As for setting any VPN to access your "home" network, the IP address
you must use is the IP address that you Internet Service Provider
issues to your access "unit" (known as WAN IP address.) You can not
access the 192.168.1.xx IP addresses directly from your college
because of a "few" possible reasons:

1) College network "could" already have a 192.168.1.xx network sub-
net

2) College network could have security which "blocks" access to most
VPN conection that are not within the campus' authorized list.


Any IP addresses based on 192.168.xxx.yyy (192.168.0.1 --
192.168.254.254) are considered to be reserved IP addresses for use on
local networks (not the Internet.)
 
Hey, thanks for the response. Even though the goal is to get to my
netware server, it has nothing to do with netware. Once I get a
connection, I will have access to those resources.

And yes, I do know about my WAN IP and LAN IP. My house has
192.168.1.x, and not sure about my college, but I will find out
tomorrow.

But, say they were different, and my college allowed VPN, how would I
go about connecting to my home network? I know my WAN IP from my
house, and I will have obviously an internet connection from my
college.

So with having the connection and knowing my home IP, how could I tap
into my home network? I appreciate any help!
 
Coopercentral said:
Hi everyone:

First off, thanks for your time!! Ok, I have a Linksys Wireless
WRT300N router. In my house, I have my main computer, my laptop, and
a netware server. I have the netware server running statically at
192.168.1.105, while the computer and laptop use DHCP. Anyways, I
think that when you connect to a VPN, don't you connect to a
computer? Well, primarily I want this so I can connect JUST to the
netware server, while I'm at college.

I store all my important files on my netware server, and wondering if
there is a way I can simply connect to my router via VPN rather than
my parents computer. Is this possible? Thanks for any help you can
give me!
Click to expand...

Can Netware act as a VPN server? I don't do Netware so I can say.

Beyond that if the main computer is running XP or Vista you could try the
built-in PPTP VPN server functionality. See these pages for help...

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn.htm

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Vista/PPTP/PPTPVPN.html

For PPTP VPN you need to open/forward TCP Port 1723 on the router to the
static LAN IP of the server PC. You also need to enable "PPTP Pass Through"
or "VPN Pass Through" on the router. That passes GRE Protocol 47 traffic.
You can test this using the "PPTP Ping" and "VPN Traffic" sections on this
page...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0105.mspx

If you can't get a PPTP VPN link to work, probably because of issue with GRE
Protocol 47 traffic, then OpenVPN, SSL-Explorer or Hamachi may be
alternatives.

--

Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the
mutual benefit of all of us...
The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights...
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
 
Hey, thanks for the response. Even though the goal is to get to my
netware server, it has nothing to do with netware. Once I get a
connection, I will have access to those resources.

And yes, I do know about my WAN IP and LAN IP. My house has
192.168.1.x, and not sure about my college, but I will find out
tomorrow.

But, say they were different, and my college allowed VPN, how would I
go about connecting to my home network? I know my WAN IP from my
house, and I will have obviously an internet connection from my
college.

So with having the connection and knowing my home IP, how could I tap
into my home network? I appreciate any help!
Click to expand...

Ok! Let's say you connect to a Windows PC as the VPN "end-point" at
home. You need to set up VPN IP port (PPTP is 1723??) to be forwarded
to the Widows PC's IP address at your home's router (WAN: www.xxx.yyy.zzz
-> 192.168.1.x.) Then, you "should" be able to access the server but
only by it's IP address (192.168.1.yyy.) since most VPN will not
transfer the Windows PCs names over itself (NetBEUI over TCP is
usually not set or not set up correctly.)


Other possiblities:

Replace home router with a router that does have VPN server built-in.

Remote Desktop (requires XP Pro @ home)

VNC -- needs to have ports also forwarded to a Windows PC and you must
place a "good" password for VNC logon.

Other "online" remote control access system like GoToMyPC.
 
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