Help with getting VPN connection for Windows File Sharing between two DG834G routers

I am having a lot of difficulty in getting the vpn functionality
available on the Netgear DG834G to work as gateway-to-gateway. I have
two identical routers each with similar vpn and firewall rules setup
and the best I managed to achieve was for the vpn connection to allow
access to the other router from either location but never managed to
get file sharing to be accessible by use of "net use \\ip address
\sharename" from either end. Even what I got to work is very
intermittent and sometimes it does not get established ok. I want to
start from scratch again and see help from anyone who has experience
of getting this to work. Previously I was making use of dynamic dns -
now i decided to concentrate on using fixed WAN ip. Netgear support
were not prepared to help for file sharing and said it was outside
their scope of support. The setup is as follows

Location A subnet 192.168.0.0 has 1st DG834G and using a fixed WAN IP
address
Location B subnet 192.168.1.0 has 2nd DG834G and using a fixed WAN IP
address
Both routers are on latest UK firmware available which is V3.01.31.

The VPN is setup using Auto Policy.
Options:
Remote VPN Endpoint: Fixed IP address
Address Data xx.xx.xx.xx being the WAN IP address
from the remote location ISP
IKE Keep Alive Ping 192.168.1.1

Local Lan
Range IP Address 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.0.127
Remote Lan
Range IP Address 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.127

IKE
Direction: Initiator and Responder
Exchange Mode: Main Mode
Diffie-Hellman (DH) Group: Group 2 (1024 Bit)
Local Identity: WAN IP Address
Remote Identity Type: IP Address

Parameters
Enryption Algorithm: 3DES
Authentication Algorithm: SHA-1
Pre-Shared Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SA LifeTime: 3600 seconds
Perfect Forward Security (PFS) : Enabled

The setup on the 2nd DG834G is identical - withs subnets being the
other way round and apprioriate Remote VPN Endpoint Fixed IP address

For firewalls I was trying with UDP and TCP ports 50, 51 and 500, 501
and 1723, 1724. Allowing all outbound and for inbound giving the local
network IP Address of a NAS server at each location

The problem is probably in the firewall rules. I also tried the
Netgear built-in rules VPN-PPTP and VPN-L2TP and VPN-IPSEC but no joy.

I also tried creating a manual vpn policy and that did not work
either.

Any help would be much appreciated

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>I am having a lot of difficulty in getting the vpn functionality
> available on the Netgear DG834G to work as gateway-to-gateway. I have
> two identical routers each with similar vpn and firewall rules setup
> and the best I managed to achieve was for the vpn connection to allow
> access to the other router from either location but never managed to
> get file sharing to be accessible by use of "net use \\ip address
> \sharename" from either end. Even what I got to work is very
> intermittent and sometimes it does not get established ok. I want to
> start from scratch again and see help from anyone who has experience
> of getting this to work. Previously I was making use of dynamic dns -
> now i decided to concentrate on using fixed WAN ip. Netgear support
> were not prepared to help for file sharing and said it was outside
> their scope of support. The setup is as follows

[snip]

I find it much the best to use Vigor routers for a VPN. You will need a
static IP public address at one location at least, and if you can't get a
static IP at the other then configure that router with a DDNS service.

--
Graham J