New issue, configuring 2 Vista nodes

[Guus Sliepen]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:16:46PM -0400, Alan S. Lawee wrote:

> My problem is that one node is able to ping both ends of the VPN connection,
> but the other can only ping the local side of the VPN connection.  I've
> checked & re-checked the configuration files and they look identical except
> for the connection names & addresses, but nothing seems to help.  That
> location is fortunate to have 2 separate DSL connections (1 VoIP, 1 data),
> and when I tried to run between the two DSL connections, forwarding port 655
> to each node, everything behaves as it did on the common LAN subnet.  The
> goal is to be able to share files between the two nodes, which doesn't work
> yet.

If you can ping the other side of a VPN connection, then the VPN itself works
in both directions (otherwise you wouldn't get a ping reply). That pinging
doesn't work from the other side suggests that it could be a firewall issue.
When in doubt, try to disable the firewall on the VPN interface completely on
both sides, and see if pinging works from both sides then.

> I have attached the config files as well as the debug output from each side
> if anyone has the time to help.

Hm, it doesn't look out of the ordinary.

> Based on my experience over the last few days, I would be willing to write
> up & submit a 'how-to' guide for setting up under Windows Vista (& once I
> get to setting up the Windows 7 environment, that one too) so that others
> can avoid the guesswork and problems I've had to solve.

That would be great! Perhaps you could expand the "installing tinc on Windows"
example on the website, or create a new example? If you want I can give you
access to the wiki.

> (Netsh syntax has also changed from XP.)

Ah, that information should also go into the manual.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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