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Romey

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I hope someone can help me. I'm new to VPN and can't seem to get this to work. I created an incoming connection on the windows 10 computer at the office, made sure to turn on network sharing and added folders, Then on the client computer at home, i created the connection and I am able to connect and get an IP from the computer at work.
The problem is i'm not able to see any folders or files or able to map a drive using the host IP. What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

The computer at the office is 10.***.***.90 and the the client computer gets an IP similar 10.***.***.33 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.255. It does not give a gateway.
 
This is because the subnet mask only has 1 IP in the network. In order to see other layer 3 devices you must set up routes or ask your office to change the subnet or perform NAT ( but even with NAT you still need to define the routes).
 
Not sure what your office situation is, but in many companies, as you're currently trying to accomplish might be a fast track to a pink-slip...

Have you considered just doing an RDP session to the remote Win10 Box?
 
Ah i see so you made your office computer a vpn server for you to connect to. Security wise this is a bad thing. Your office should have its own vpn server for you to connect to to access resources.

If you really need to access resources remotely and it is just your office computer and your company has no vpn than consider teamviewer.

Im surprised your office had vpn passthrough.
 

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