My goal is to setup a VPN on my desktop for my home network to which I can connect my laptop when I am out in order to use a remote desktop.
My issue is that I cannot successfully connect to the VPN - and I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. I've followed various online tutorials and below I've detailed the steps I've taken.
First of all, I followed the tutorial here to setup a VPN with Windows 10's 'built-in' tool. This results in a new 'Incoming Connections' item in the Network Connections panel for which a new user (called 'VPN') has access (see image VPN user in Network Connection panel).
After this I've tried to setup port forwarding for port 1723 (which I believe is the port accessed when connecting to a VPN). Here is an image of my routers port forwarding screen image. I've set the protocol to TCP and UDP (available options are combinations of this).
Taking my LAN port (as found in ipconfig) to be 127.123.1.123 and my WAN port as found on ipv4.me to be 196.124.233.223 (both faked) I set the following:
- WAN Host IP Address: 196.124.233.223 ~ 196.124.233.223
- LAN Host: 127.123.1.123
- WAN Port: 1723
- LAN Port: 1723
My router is a ZTE H298A and my provider is Hyperoptic (UK). A screenshot of the port forwarding settings can be seen here: port forwarding screenshot
Finally, in my laptop I use the built in VPN settings to attempt to connect to the WAN ip address as seen here.
I'm not sure at which of the three steps I'm going wrong so all help is appreciated.
987.123.1.1xx
as an address that doesn't seem right. This question should include more details and clarify the problem.