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fatdave - 31 Oct 2007 17:36 GMT

I Have two computers.
One XP Pro Laptop.
One XP Pro Desktop.

I have got a connection up and running between the both of them, but can no
see in network neigheourhood or ping?

Please help.

David

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Sooner Al [MVP] - 31 Oct 2007 18:01 GMT

>I Have two computers.
> One XP Pro Laptop.
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> David

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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fatdave - 31 Oct 2007 18:27 GMT

> >I Have two computers.
> > One XP Pro Laptop.
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> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314884/en-us

OK.

I have now changed the ip address range.

On home computer 10.0.0.200/24
on laptop 192.168.2.3/24

On Link 10.0.10.1 and 10.0.10.2

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