Setting up a vpn through a router...

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Does anyone have any good advice on setting up a vpn?

I got a new laptop for school (running Vista) and a Netgear N wireless router. My desktop is running xp, soon I'll put xp professional on it. Supposedly, at least I thought, xp could be a vpn server.

I can access my shared folders and printers from home, so some sort of communication is going on. But my vpn never connects and I don't know what to do.

I have tried both my LAN ip, and the public ip that SBC gave to me, but it won't connect. I did set up port forwarding on my router.

I've tried connecting to the vpn at my home network, and from the school's. It takes longer to tell me it won't connect when I do it from school.

Anybody have any advice?

what are you using for VPN?

have you tried Hamachi?
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I don't think XP can host VPN out of the box. I have XP Pro, and there isn't a Routing and Remote Access option. I know that it can do remote desktop, however.

by the way, school's networks are way more restrictive, take that into account, so I wouldn't be surprised if it won't connect.

Indeed. When I used to work at the University, the computer lab techs locked everything down as to be unusable. I think they follow the "lock the bathroom door and it'll never get dirty" style of maintenance.

Thanks guys. This is Iamscientist. I just didn't feel like logging out my wife's accout.

I thought xp had a vpn out of the box, but I downloaded Hamachi, so everything should be ok.

On the other hand. My laptop already died. It was an Everex SA2053 or something like that. I had it for three weeks and it won't power up. I already voided the warranty by upgrading the memory, so I guess I'll take a screwing when I try to get it fixed.

thanks