Cannot Access The Local Area Network computers.

[adbutt]

Hi,

My Name is Muhammad Adnan Butt.

I Currently evaluating the Wingate VPN For my Organization.


I installed it on 2 machine.

Office Server.

1. Windows 2000 Server with SP4 & ie 6.0
Connectivity: Wireless Modem.
no router & Firewall.

Home Computer.

2. windows Xp Machine.
56K dialup connection.

I am Able 2 connect to the VPN Server.
But i'm not able to access the computers on local Netwrok connected to Vpn Server from my home computer.

[erwin]

Hi Muhammad

There could be several reasons why you cannot access the machines from your home computer. Can you see these machines listed in the network window in GateKeeper? Are they listed as accessible?

Is the host server set to allow "Local Network" participation?
The machines behind the VPN will need to have their Gateway network setting pointed to the host server in order to be accessible.

Can you ping the Internal IP of the machines you are trying to reach?.
Another point is that Netbios is used to display network resources such as machine names, shared drives etc, and this information can take a little while to come across the VPN.

May I suggest you read our whitepaper on understanding WinGate VPN found here for further info.

http://www.wingate.com/resources.php

Regards
Erwin