Help! I'm stuck trying to setup Vista for VPN access (pesonal

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I'd like to be able to access certain files on my computer when I'm out.

I don't want to use a service like Hamachi. I want to be at a computer (XP or Vista) and be able to connect to my home computer and access files without installing any software.

I'm using Be* Broadband. They told me their router will allow VPN. This is the guidance I got for setting it up.

Thank you for contacting us.

Here are the basic steps you need to setup the VPN connection:

Login to the Be Box page: http://192.168.1.254

-In the Be Box main menu click on ¿Toolbox¿

-Under ¿Toolbox¿ click on the option ¿Game & application sharing¿

-In ¿Game and application sharing¿ click the task ¿Assign a game or application to a local network¿

-Choose ¿IPSEC application¿ and assign it to your computer. Your computer will be visible in the list with the name that has been assigned to your computer

-Then choose ¿PPTP application¿ and assign it to your computer

-If you have a VPN, you will also need to configure the settings on your VPN client on your computer. This is because your VPN client is behind a NAT router using udp forwarding. Please confirm this with your system administrator who is responsible for maintaining your VPN client.

Also go to Start -> Run -> cmd <enter>

telnet 192.168.1.254 <enter>

Authenticate with the username and password

(by default Administrator and blank for password)

service system ifdelete name=HTTPs group=wan <enter>

saveall <enter>

exit <enter>

These steps should allow you to run VPN behind NAT without any difficulties.

I then followed the steps on this website for setting up Vista as a VPN Server:

Vista as VPN Server

The point at which I got stuck/confused was here...

If remote VPN users will be allowed to access the home local area network check the Allow callers to access my local area network checkbox.

Configure the IP address assignment window using IP addresses in the same subnet as the VPN server PC and LAN (see the example local area network).

In the following example the From: address is the address assigned to the VPN gateway and the To: address is assigned to the incoming VPN client.

Click OK when finished.

Reason being that the example given was this:

It showed a sequence of ip adresses.

My router's IP address is - 192.168.1.254

I can't go higher than this IP address - so what do I put in the "To" IP address box.

I presume if I get this correct. I could be say at starbucks with my laptop. Choose to create a VPN. Enter the IP address. Enter the username and password and connect to my home computer.

What I'm confused about is supposing I told two computers in my house to accept incoming VPN connections - how would my router know which to forward to. Was that done above where I setup the PPTP and IPSEC forwarding.

As you can see I'm trying to get my head around this - but it's all very new to me.

Help would be greatly appreciated!