Hi everyone,
I've been messing with this for hours and hours now and I just can't seem to get it to work. My ultimate goal is to set up a VPN into my home network that I can connect to from my Android phone. This kind of limits me in the available choices for types of VPN to use -- it has to be one of the ones supported by Android. For starters, I decided to go with a standard old-fashioned PPTP VPN. I have a Windows 7 machine inside my FiOS network (using the standard VZ-provided Actiontec router) and I used it to set up a VPN server. I followed instructions available at many places, this being one:
http://www.howtogeek.com/135996/how-to-create-a-vpn-server-on-your-windows-computer-without-installing-any-software/
This process is relatively simple. The Win7 box has a static IP within the network. I then went into my Actiontec router and added port forwarding for PPTP (via the built-in rule that also includes GRE forwarding) to the static IP of the Win7 box, and attempted to connect from my phone via a cellular connection. This did not work. I then tried about a million combinations of settings with a similar fate. Finally, as a test, I set the Win7 box as the DMZ Host in the Actiontec router, and disabled Windows Firewall on the Win7 box. As far as I can tell, there should now be nothing in the way of a connection being established, unfortunately it still will not work.
Interestingly, if I attempt to connect to the VPN server from another Windows machine within the network, it works as long as I provide the internal IP of the Win7 box hosting the server (192.168.1.x). If I provide my external IP, however, it will not work. Because of this, I suspect the Actiontec is not forwarding something properly, but I can't really prove it.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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