[pptp-server] network neighborhood HELP!!!

[Nate Carlson]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Alan Chung wrote:
> I think I got so close but there was still a bit (big?) problem.
> 
> Now I can dial up to my internal VPN server (running PopTop server on a 
> Linux box) from a EXTERNAL window 98 client without any problem, the 
> connection seems there (ppp0 connection showed by ifconfig with a remote 
> IP, let's say 192.168.0.10), and I can ping from any internal machine to 
> 192.168.0.10.  But now I have two major problems:
> 
> 1.	I can't ping from that win98 VPN  client to any remote internal machine. 
> (I even tried to add a route for 192.168.0.10 on VPN server). Does it 
> mean 	that the ipchains firewalling rules is not correctly setup yet?  But 
> pinging is not a problem except this though.  I can ping to/from anywhere 
> except 	this.

Sounds like it.

> 2.	I am not able to see/browse any internal machine in network 
> neighbothood.  (I have set up /etc/ppp/options with ms-wins and ms-dns in 
> it to 	specify WINS server, which is also a NT PDC internally).

If you cannot ping, you probably can't get other traffic over the link..

are you sure you have ip forwarding, etc enabled?

can you show us your firewall rules?

> Please give me some advice if anybody knows or has the same experience.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Alan 

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