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Title: Accessing remote PPTP server
Post by: orcusomega on November 13, 2006, 09:40:40 PM

I have searshed, but have not seen anything that would helpso far, so please bear with me.

I have an SME box as an internet-facing gateway, and need to be able to allow PPTP to my system (get into my home network) as well as be able to connect to a remote PPTP server, but I cannot get a connection up and running.  

It works if I am not behind the SME gateway, and does not seem to matter if I have the local PPTPD on or not, I cannot get to the remote gateway.

Any help is appreciated, as this is getting pretty frustrating.

Thanks,

Bob

Title: Accessing remote PPTP server
Post by: imcintyre on November 14, 2006, 12:19:39 AM

You may want to follow this topic

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=33194.msg149144#msg149144

Title: Accessing remote PPTP server
Post by: orcusomega on November 14, 2006, 01:12:33 AM

Quote from: "imcintyre"

You may want to follow this topic

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=33194.msg149144#msg149144

Thanks, but that is the OpenVPN implementation, and I am using PPTP.

Thanks,

Bob

Title: Re: Accessing remote PPTP server
Post by: srushik on January 12, 2008, 04:38:45 PM

I have the exact same issue.  If using the SME server as my gateway, I cannot connect to another remote PPTP server.  If I change the gateway to any other router, it connects to the remote PPTP server no problem.

It seems like SME server, when used as a gateway, is blocking something that will not allow a PPTP connection to a remote server.

Did you ever get a solution to this topic?

Title: Re: Accessing remote PPTP server
Post by: imcintyre on January 12, 2008, 08:32:38 PM

I probably wasn't very clear when I answered this the first time and for that I apologize.

Some time ago I raised this issue as a posting. I use sme server at home. When I had PPTP (VPN) access enabled on my SME server, I could get into home from work but could not vpn into work ( a netopia device) from home. I raised a bug also. The original posting is here

Quote

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=36779.0

. There are some more details there if you wish or go to the bug.

I installed the openvpn contrib on me sme server at home, put the client on my work laptop and everything works well, I can vpn into either network. At home I use the regular windows client to get into work. At work or elsewhere I use the much more secure Openvpn contrib. It works very well, I can play my home music at work etc.

I hope this answers your question.