Configuring a VPN over the Internet

[Guest]

I have a desktop Win XP Pro and a laptop with XP Pro. I would like to
configure the two machines so I may use a VPN to access my desktop with my
laptop over the Internet. Going through the Knowledge Base (KB) I was only
able to learn how to setup a machine to create a VPN to an existing machine
setup to be accessed by VPN. I was not able to find how to setup a machine
to be accessed by VPN.

As can be noted, I am pretty new at this, so any KB article you can point me
to would be greatly appreciated. Thank-you in advance!

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

This page should be of some help with that...

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm

Here is how I did it...Ignore the PocketPC parts...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/WM2003/WM2003PPTPVPN.html

Note the comments about opening TCP Port 1723 and enabling GRE Protocol 47
traffic through any router or firewall the desktop PC may be behind.

Currently I use Secure Shell (SSH), versus PPTP VPN, for encrypted secure
remote access and run XP Pro Remote Desktop through the SSH tunnel...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/RemoteDesktopSSH.html
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/Private-publicKey.html

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[Guest]

Thank-you for the reply. This seems to answer my questions. Now to go
experiment with implementing it.