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rdp tunneling via vpn - not working
Hello, new to the forum here. I am hoping to get some assistance with an issue that I have been trying to figure out but have been unsuccessful at resolving. Thanks in advance for any assistance provided and input given.
Here is what I would like to accomplish:
I have three computers on my home network (mine - Win7 Pro x64, my wife's Win7 Pro x32, and the family computer for general use and the kids - Ubuntu 12.04 x64), all behind my router. I have given them all static IPs via the routers options. I can remote into all of them from any of them while on my local network. No problem there. No need to open ports in the router or anything. It works perfectly just like it is supposed to.
But, I would like to be able to remote into any of them while outside of my local network. I have opened port 3389 (standard RDP port) in my router and it forwards to my computer no problems. I can remote into my computer from outside of my local network by using my public IP, and it works like it is supposed to. But that defeats the purpose of what I would like to do because it only allows me to remote into one computer and only one plus it doesn't really have the level of security that I would like to have.
So, I would like to create a VPN connection to my computer and then once that VPN connection is established, use RDP to tunnel through the vpn to remote into any of the computers on my local network, all while doing this outside of my local network.
I have created VPNs in the past and used RDP to tunnel through the VPN and it was simple and easy. It was about 4 years ago and I was connecting from a Vista machine to an XP machine. But now, I can't seem to get it to work.
I have created an incoming connection (VPN) on my machine, it was simple enough and pretty straight forward.
Then when I am at, say my parents house or a friend's house, I use their machine (WinXP Pro x32 & Win7 Pro x32), create an outgoing connection (VPN) and connect to my VPN using my public IP. The connection is made, but when I use remote connection and input the local IP address of one of my machines, it won't make the remote connection. I have tried doing it using the computer names instead of the IP address but that won't work. I made sure that my local IP range didn't conflict with the typical range of other routers. So for example, my router gateway is 192.168.2.1. Whereas my parent's router would have been the typical 192.168.1.1. I have tried making the connection from a win7 machine too and no go. I can make the connection with the VPN, and it says that it makes the connection, but then when I try to RDP, that is when I have the issues.
One more thing about the VPN, it seems to act a little different than what I would assume it is supposed to do. When the connection is made, if I check my machine's incoming connections, it says that it has one connection but that there have been 0 (zero) packets sent and 0 (zero) packets received. Yet the machine that made the connection says that it has sent some od piddly small amount of data to the VPN server and received from the VPN server. Also, the IP address and subnet mask of the connection machine aren't in the range of my local network range and subnet mask. If you would like me to post some screen shots of ipconfig /all, jus tle tme know.
Oh and yes, I have set the port forwarding in my router for the VPN. It is port 1723 for PPTP. And that is the only port for VPN that I have forwarded.
So far, I have only tried to RDP into one machine in my network once the VPN connection is established, and it is also consequently the same machine acting as the VPN server accepting incoming connections. Would it being that the VPN server not allow it to also accept RDP connections? I just thought of that as I was writing this .... hmmmmm
I will try and get some screen shots of everything if it will help.
Screen shots of setting up incoming VPN connection.