Windows 2000 + VPN trouble

[radioouman]

I'm trying to set up a VPN connection between my home computer and my work computer. Both are running Windows 2000 Professional, and I want to tunnel to my home computer.

I've set up my computer at home to accept incoming VPN connections, and I've set up the outgoing VPN connection on my machine at work. I can connect to my home computer, but when it gets to the username/password authentication, it times out and won't go any farther.

Interestingly, I tried connecting with another Windows XP box on my home network, and can't get any farther. So something has to be wrong with the configuration of my Windows 2000 Professional box, but I can't figure out what it is.

Any ideas?

 

[azev]

I dont think you can connect 2 win2kpro machine via VPN. You need win2k server to be the VPN server.

 

[radioouman]

Originally posted by: azev
I dont think you can connect 2 win2kpro machine via VPN. You need win2k server to be the VPN server.

According to this MS Knowledge Base Article you can do it with Win2k Pro.

I have a Linksys router at my home network, but I have all ports and protocols forwarded to the Win2k box so I know that's not the problem. Especially since I can connect, and it starts to authenticate, but then it quits.

 

[isaacmacdonald]

*ouphff* I had this exact problem about 5 months ago, though it was with 2k advanced server. Same behavior though. First thing I'd double check is if you can connect within your local network. I experienced the same problem both inside and outside, which is what clued me into the fact that this wasn't a router issue.

Unfortunatly I can't pinpoint exactly what the solution was. In 2kadvServer, I had to dick around the routing service and add a "loopback" ethernet connection thing, and then it seemed to work fine (both in and outside the local network)

 

[radioouman]

Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
*ouphff* I had this exact problem about 5 months ago, though it was with 2k advanced server. Same behavior though. First thing I'd double check is if you can connect within your local network. I experienced the same problem both inside and outside, which is what clued me into the fact that this wasn't a router issue.

Unfortunatly I can't pinpoint exactly what the solution was. In 2kadvServer, I had to dick around the routing service and add a "loopback" ethernet connection thing, and then it seemed to work fine (both in and outside the local network)

Yep, I have the same problem inside my network, so I'm sure it has something to do with my configuration...