VNC with XP Firewall over VPN tunnel

[Claude_The_Goalie]

I am trying to connect my XP Pro box at home to my 2000
box at work via VPN tunnel using TightVNC
I turn on the VPN tunnel, start the VNC viewer and I can
connect to my 2000 box.
I turn on the XP Pro firewall and I can no longer connect.
The VNC host (server)is 192.168.0.100:0 (example)
My home XP box (viewer) is 192.168.1.99 (example)
I have created two firewall rules on XP box:
VNC1
192.168.0.100
5900 TCP
5900
-----
VNC1
192.168.0.100
5800 TCP
5800
-----
I look at the pfirewall.log on the XP box and see that
the src-port is in the lower 30XX and the destination is
5900 but still can't connect.
I have even tried lowering my MTU in case of packet
fragmentation.
I don't want to go and buy a firewall just because this
one is not very user friendly.

 

[Sooner Al]

Its my understanding the XP VPN client does not work correctly when the XP Internet Connection
Firewall (ICF) is enabled, although I could be wrong about that. Perhaps Jeffrey or Bill can help on
that issue...

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