Vista Ultimate box sitting on my LAN. XP box on the LAN, from which I am Remote Desktop'd onto the Vista Box. I have setup the Vista box as a VPN server and configured the router NAT so that it correctly forwards incoming VPN requests to the Vista box. If the Vista box gets a VPN connection to it (either from the WAN, via the NAT, or locally from another XP box or even the same as the RD is on) I lose the RD connection and cant connect to the Vista box anymore.. If i try to ping the Vista box once the VPN is connected, using the local machine DNS name (which usually works, with the Router acting as DNS host) I dont even get name resolution. If I try pinging the IP address of the Vista box, i do get a ping response, but even if I try RDing (from the local XP box to the Vista box) using the IP address it doesn't want to know. Does that make sense, or should I reword all that into English lol. Is there a VPN server config setting on the Vista box, that I'm not doing right, that still allows access to the machine from the LAN when an incoming VPN connection is made? Or am I just missing the blindingly obvious here? :-) Many thanks in advance Mat