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VPN can't map drives after successful connect on Linksys WRV54G

I'm currently using a Linksys WRV54G VPN router. I bought it for it's easy VPN setup. I setup the user accounts on the router and can successfully connect remotely using the "quickvpn" client software that Linksys provides. The problem is that I can't "see" the remote network from the client side. I turned off all firewalls. I can successfully ping all of the network addresses on the network but can't seem to resolve any names. I also can't navigate by ip address. I type in \\ipaddress\c$\ and my client computer can't see anything. The network that I am trying to remotely access is using a completely different ip/subnet configuration.

Again, I can connect and ping, but I can't map--even by ip address. Please advise.

Mike

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I have all of my firewalls turned off to my knowledge. I am behind a netgear router but I also tried it with the public ip. I am running version 2.36 and I am having the same problems as the people in the articles. From what I've read, I should be able to connect to the remote network from behind my NAT router. However, nobody has had any success with it. If I knew which ports the client software was using, couln't I just forward those ports to the machine with the client software? It's very odd, I can ping all of the machines behind the WRV54g but can't view any resources. I have even tried setting up the LMHOSTS file to connect to the remote machines--no luck.

I'm beginning to realize that I need to purchase a second WRV54g and create a VPN tunnel. Thanks to your articles, I now understand that the "quickvpn" setup is a pathetic wannabee VPN setup. Thanks for the help. Enjoy the points!!