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VPN for beginners - Help required Please

Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:47 pm
by Caslon
Hello

This is a whole new world for me and I'm learning as I go, so please be gentle.
I have a Windows 7 machine working as a VPN server at my home office and it has a Marvell Yukon 80e8053 Gigabit Dual NIC. I'm trying to create a VPN connection back to my home LAN whilst travelling and I'm having difficulty. I've followed the instructions and I'm told I'm connected, but I don't see any devices or receive an internet connection through my server. I'm also not able to delete a couple of bridges and I wasn't able to create any new ones either, until I updated the Yukon drivers to the latest version. I was then able to create a new bridge, but I still cannot delete the old ones. The whole bridge creation area has been lumpy since I started.
What I'm trying to achieve is access to my home LAN and to have Internet access via my home router, with it's IP address.

Many thanks

Re: VPN for beginners - Help required Please

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 7:16 am
by Railtracer
What sort of problems are you having with bridge deletion? Any error messages?

Re: VPN for beginners - Help required Please

Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 6:14 am
by Caslon
"Object not found"

Re: VPN for beginners - Help required Please

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 9:58 am
by cedar
Are you trying to use Windows's bridging function?
Please try using the local bridge function of SoftEther VPN Server.

Re: VPN for beginners - Help required Please

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:23 am
by Caslon
I am using the SoftEther Bridge function and not Windows and "Object not Found" is the message I receive when I try to delete any existing bridge

Re: VPN for beginners - Help required Please

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:38 am
by thisjun
You can initialize the VPN server by deleting the configuration file after stopping the VPN server service.
http://www.softether.org/4-docs/1-manua ... ation_File

Re: VPN for beginners - Help required Please

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:30 am
by Caslon
Thanks Thisjun.

I've deleted the config file and reconfigured the server. It all seems to be working in as much as I receive an IP address from my TP Link router at home, but I don't get internet access or the external IP of my virgin media modem.

Thanks for the help

Re: VPN for beginners - Help required Please

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:12 am
by thisjun
What configuration did you do?