VPN and internet connection sharing

[Wendie]

We have a peer to peer network with a file server that
has win2k professional on it. One of the people in the
office wants to connect to it remotely. We all connect
to the internet via an ADSL router shared connection over
a network hub. Our ISP has assigned us a static IP
address and I think I know how to set up an incoming
connection on this file server.

I have a question regarding the internet connection
sharing. I have been reading everything I can in the
knowledge base papers about VPNs and there is one that
says
"When you are using a shared Internet connection for a
local area network (LAN) on a computer running Microsoft
Windows 2000 Professional and then establish a virtual
private network (VPN) connection, the computers that are
using the shared connection can no longer connect to the
Internet."

Does anyone know if this will affect the ICS on a
router? Would upgrading to XP help stop this?

Thanks for any help.
Wendie

 

[Jon Montana]

I think that only happens if you use the default gateway settings of the
host.

 

[wendie]

Hmmm, that would make sense. Ok, so I untick the use
default gateway on the remote machine.

Thank you! Let's see if it works!