Adding an Incoming Connection stops all neworking!!

[Guest]

I am trying to setup a VPN.
We have central printers & Quickbooks running on a Win XP Pro machine - and
XP home clients connect to this OK (in the LAN).
Now one user needs to work remotely; so I configured an 'incoming
connection' on the XP Pro maching following these instructions:
http://www.chicagotech.net/vpnsetup.htm#How to configure Win 2000/XP Pro as VPN host

But the moment I press 'finish' - the LAN clients cannot print on the
central printers or connect to Quickbooks.

Can anyone suggest what's going wrong?

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

You may have a routing issue. Posting the routing table here may help. Or this troubleshooting may help,

routing issues on vpnResolution: When establishing VPN to the office A, the routing table changes. To fix this issue, disable the "Use default gateway" on the Office A VPN ...
http://www.chicagotech.net/routingissuesonvpn.htm


Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
I am trying to setup a VPN.
We have central printers & Quickbooks running on a Win XP Pro machine - and
XP home clients connect to this OK (in the LAN).
Now one user needs to work remotely; so I configured an 'incoming
connection' on the XP Pro maching following these instructions:
http://www.chicagotech.net/vpnsetup.htm#How to configure Win 2000/XP Pro as VPN host

But the moment I press 'finish' - the LAN clients cannot print on the
central printers or connect to Quickbooks.

Can anyone suggest what's going wrong?

 

[Guest]

I haven't changed the router (yet).
My first change was to setup the incoming connection on the server
Then I was going to change the router to allow VPN pass-throu
Then I was going to setup the client.

But as soon as I implement the incoming connection on the XP Pro machine, it
seems other LAN clients loose connection to it

 

[Guest]

I have copied the results of the commands below:
In summary - the IpConfig shows Ip Routing Enabled = No (before adding the
Incoming connection) and Yes (after) {I'm sure I have his the right way
round}
- and Route print shows = same before & after.

Details are below - I'd be grateful if someone could make sense of this for
me - THanks

Before adding the Incoming connection:
IpConfig /all shows:

Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : TERRI
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : gateway.2wire.net

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : gateway.2wire.net
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast
Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-14-85-73-8B-0B
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.68
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 26 February 2007 09:23:37
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 27 February 2007 09:23:37

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Route print shows:

===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x2 ...00 14 85 73 8b 0b ...... Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet
NIC - Packet Scheduler Miniport
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 192.168.1.68 20
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.68 192.168.1.68 20
192.168.1.68 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
192.168.1.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.68 192.168.1.68 20
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.1.68 192.168.1.68 20
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.68 192.168.1.68 1
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.254
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
None

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After adding the Incoming connection:
Ipconfig shows:



Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : TERRI
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : gateway.2wire.net

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : gateway.2wire.net
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast
Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-14-85-73-8B-0B
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.68
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 26 February 2007 09:23:37
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 27 February 2007 09:23:37

And the Route Print shows
(same as before)