Re: Access local IP's when connected to PPTP in windows?

First, you want to do split tunnel - In Windows XP, open the Properties of your PPTP VPN connection, go to the Networking tab, select TCP/IP, go to its properties. Click the Advanced button, uncheck "Use default gateway on remote network".   Windows 7 is similar, but the connection icons are buried deeper.  And do it for both IPV4 and IPV6.

The undocumented part with Windows 7 is, find the .PBK file with all the connection attributes.  It's either in c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Networking\Connections\pbk\RASphone.pbk (I think) or buried deep in a hidden folder in your profile.  Edit the file with Notepad and change the line,

USERASCREDENTIALS=1

To

USERASCREDENTIALS=0

This line tells Windows what you want to use for credentials - use either the VPN credentials you supply, or the credentials when you first logged into Windows.  By default with Windows 7,  you use the VPN credentials to access stuff local in your own LAN.  So when you access a VPN connection, your local network becomes unavailable because your credentials are no longer any good.   Our friends in Redmond call this a feature.

And none of this is a PopTop issue, it's how Microsoft implemented PPTP with Windows 7 and newer.


-          Greg


From: Edmund [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Poptop-server] Access local IP's when connected to PPTP in windows?

Hi, how can i access local IP's like 192.168.9.71 that are on my network while connected to the VPN?

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