Question : Problem: VPN Connection Problem  (ATTN: CCOMLEY)

Good Morning:
I  am trying to set up a VPN between two of our offices.  I have a ZyXEL Prestige 662HW-61 at each end.  The wireless network is working fine and all units behind the routers have internet access.  
I have set up the VPN policy as follows:

IPSec Setup
Active  YES                  Keep Alive  YES       NAT Traversal   NO

                                             UNIT 1                UNIT 2

Name:                                        LYNWOOD               CENTRAL
IPSec Key Mode                               IKE                   IKE
Negotiation Mode                             Main                  Main
Encapsulation Mode                           Tunnel                Tunnel
DNS Server (for IPSec VPN)                   0.0.0.0               0.0.0.0

Local:
Local Address Type                           RANGE                 RANGE
IP Address Start                             192.168.1.40          192.168.2.33
End/Subnet Mask                              192.168.1.49          192.168.2.39

Remote:
Local Address Type                           RANGE                 RANGE
IP Address Start                             192.168.2.33          192.168.1.40
End/Subnet Mask                              192.168.2.39          192.168.1.49

Address Information:
Local ID Type                                IP                    IP
Content                                      BLANK                 BLANK
My IP Address                                WAN IP Address        WAN IP Address
Peer ID Type                                 IP                    IP
Content                                      BLANK                 BLANK
Secure Gateway Address                       UNIT 2 WAN IP Address UNIT 1 WAN IP Address

Security Protocol:
VPN Protocol                                 ESP                   ESP
Pre-Shared Key                               ABCDEFGH              ABCDEFGH
Encryption Algorithm                         DES                   DES
Authentication Algorithm                     MD5                   MD5

I have all firewalls off.
I enter  192.168.2.33 in UNIT 1 Internet Explorer Address Bar and I can not connect.
I enter  192.168.1.40 in UNIT 2 Internet Explorer Address Bar and I can not connect.

What must I do to enable connection?

P.S.  CCOMLEY may help as he suggested these ZyXEL units.

                                                        Thanks, Russ

Answer : Problem: VPN Connection Problem  (ATTN: CCOMLEY)

Shouldn't be anything to set up in Widows or mappings at this point. Once you are sure you have a connection you may have to configure any software firewalls such as the Windows firewall, and depending on what you want to accomplish you may want to map some drives.

In the mean time to confirm a connection just try pinging the LAN side of the remote router. Or try connecting to the router using it's LAN IP address rather than the public/WAN address. This would have to go through the tunnel to work, confirming a connection.

You mentioned "I have since found out that I can get into the remote router by putting it's IP Address into any Internet Explorer address bar."  If that is with the LAN IP then the tunnel is working.

When you do have it running you won't see any computers when browsing unless you have WINS configured. Depending on your configuration you may not be able to connect to a computer by name either. That we can fix, but you should be able to connect by IP. So, to access a remote share you would use something like:
   \\192.168.1.123\ShareName