fatdave said:
I have got two computers.
Thery are both XP pro. I have got a connection up and running beteen the
both of them, but that is is, i can not see or ping then?
This is a PPTP VPN XP host and a XP client?
Is the firewall configured to allow pings on the server PC?
http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/164
You are using a different subnet on the server PC LAN than the remote
client, right? Meaning the server LAN is running 192.168.1.X for example
while the client is connecting from a LAN using 192.168.10.X for example.
The subnets should not be the same.
You may not be able to see or browse PCs in Network Neighborhood since your
not running a WINS server on the XP server PC. You could use a lmhosts file
on the client to map addresses to the name then you could use the UNC...
Example...
\\PCName\ShareName
Here is an example lmhosts file...
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Vista/PPTP/Examplelmhosts.txt
More lmhosts help from MS...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314884/en-us
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