Hi. I just upgraded from XP Pro to Win7 Pro. Very nice. However, I can't get the VPN to work. I have exactly the same settings as I did on XP and I've even disabled my firewalls to check. So - I have the incoming connection set up over the internet and a user for VPN access set-up with granted access to the local network. All of that is fine. I can even connect to the VPN from outside (using a phone or a tablet), but no IP address seems to have been given, so I can't do anything to access services on the LAN. I can't even ping, let alone access shared drives, etc. If I look at "status" on the connected WAN PPTP Miniport, I see no traffic in either direction and I see IPv4 as unconnected. Under details, there's nothing. So - not surprising that I can't access anything! So - what's missing here? What more do I need to do? Under XP, the exact same settings worked perfectly, issued the connecting client an IP address (using DHCP, just as it's set now) and I could access all of the shared devices, etc. Anyone able to offer any help?

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Have you properly setup the VPN server? How to Set up an incoming VPN on Windows 7 http://www.howtonetworking.com/VPN/win7vpn1.htm How To Setup VPN on Windows 7 as Home Solution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s5JxMG06L4 Note: Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information. This issue can be also related to the firewall in Windows 7. You may temporary disable firewall and check the result.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Yes, I'm absolutely certain I've done this correctly. It matches completely, I've checked it lots of times and I've done it successfully many times in the past. Also - remember that I can successfully CONNECT to the VPN server. It's just that it's creating an IP address for the incoming connection, so IP traffic isn't possible.

Because no IP address is being created, IP traffic isn't possible, so no - it's not going to be possible to ping anything.