VPN between two offices without an MS server on one side

[Guest Charly]

Hello World,

 

 

 

Here is the setup I have :

 

 

 

The head-quarter office has the regular config : some Windows servers,

 

windows worstations, on a LAN with an Internet access. One server

 

manages the Internet access, another server hosts an Oracle database.

 

LAN IP is : 192.168.0.xxx

 

 

 

The branch office has only workstations (XP Pro) on a LAN with an

 

Internet access. LAN IP is 192.168.1.xxx

 

 

 

I'm trying to set up a VPN between the two offices, in order to share

 

remote ressources.

 

 

 

So far I came to that :

 

- the VPN is set up and OK : the "internet" server in the HQ acts as

 

VPN server, one workstation of the branch office is connected.

 

- the workstation witht the VPN in the branch office can see all

 

the HQ LAN (others computers, printers, etc). In particular

 

the Oracle server. This computer has then 2 NICs : one real with

 

address 192.168.1.aaa, and one virtual for the VPN with address

 

192.168.0.bbb.

 

- I set the route on the oracle server so that it knows the path

 

to the branch office LAN (via the VPN server)

 

- I set the route on the workstations of the branch office so

 

that they know the path to the HQ LAN (via the workstation

 

with the VPN connected).

 

- On the workstation connected to the VPN in the branch office

 

I set the registery key "IpEnableRouter" = 1 in

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

 

and the computer has been restarted.

 

 

 

and ... nothing.

 

 

 

The workstations in the branch office cannot see none of the devices of

 

the HQ LAN. I've done this elsewhere with OpenVPN instead of MS VPN, and

 

it worked.

 

 

 

Do I miss something ? Some build-in limitation in WinXP ? I searched the

 

web without result about that case.

 

 

 

Thanks for your help,

 

 

 

Charly