noobie VPN setup question

[davered]

hello people please help me out,
I have been running wingate on our work servers for about 12 months no problem, but we have two users who are moving to spain to live but still want to use our LAN we have some software running that the both users need to run over the VPN, I setup my PC at home to test the connection before we go live. this is want i have done up till now

1. installed wingate VPN on the server as a host and generated certificate.
2. opened two ports on our firebox TCP/UDP 809 forwarding onto the server.
3. installed wingate VPN as a client on my PC at home which runs XP pro and connects with a 1mb broadband.
4. imported the certficate, connected to the VPN, I can see the servername under the VPN connection tab.
5. but when I click Microsoft network it doesnt list all the PC's currently on the LAN at work.


Please tell me what I am doing wrong???


THANX IN ADVANCE :)

[jono659]

Acouple of things, first do you have local network participation selected, if yes double click on the icon for the server in gatekeeper to connect then have a look in network places

[Pascal]

A few things:

1. Network enumeration sometimes takes a while to complete. Depending on how quickly you connected to the server, the list of machines might not be complete yet. (9/10 it is though)

2. Clients need Microsoft Networking active and running to be visible. (Should be the case if your local network is operating fine)

3. Most importantly, as the WinGate VPN is a routing based solution, client PCs behind the VPN nodes (Server and Joiner) need to know how to route back to the remote node. This can be accomplished by setting their default gateways to the VPN node, using a RIP v 2 listener on the clients OR by setting up static routes to the remote side.


If you are seeing some PCs, but not others, try rebooting one of the ones you are not seeing. When it shuts down and comes back up, it will broadcast it's name registration on the local network, which will be picked up by the VPN Node and added to the list of known machines.

[davered]

both are set to local netowrk, but wot I have noticed is that the subnet mask is wrong...ie. the LAN IP config is 192.168.1.1 / 255.255.255.0
but the published route is 192.168.1.1 / 255.255.255.255, also on my test PC at home the IP config is 212.106.xx.xx / 255.255.255.0 but in the config its 212.106.xx.xx / 255.255.255.255

Whay isnt on the same subnet or shouldnt it be???

please help, I need to get this VPN up by end of april...