Can suddenly no longer connect to VPN host after reboot?

[binarydad]

I've had a solid connection to my home VPN server (windows 2012) from my office (windows 8.1) for days over PPTP and have had no issues.

This morning, I had to hard-shutdown my server due to an unrelated issue and reboot it. The issue is, on my office PC, I can suddenly no longer connect to it. It just hangs on "connecting" and eventually times out. IP and other settings have stayed the same.

I'm not too advanced with VPN, so I'm not sure exactly what else it could be. Other devices outside of my network can connect just fine. I don't believe anything on the office network changed because it was working fine up until I rebooted my home server. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[tipstir]

I've had a solid connection to my home VPN server (windows 2012) from my office (windows 8.1) for days over PPTP and have had no issues.

This morning, I had to hard-shutdown my server due to an unrelated issue and reboot it. The issue is, on my office PC, I can suddenly no longer connect to it. It just hangs on "connecting" and eventually times out. IP and other settings have stayed the same.

I'm not too advanced with VPN, so I'm not sure exactly what else it could be. Other devices outside of my network can connect just fine. I don't believe anything on the office network changed because it was working fine up until I rebooted my home server. Any ideas? Thanks.

Could be issue 8.1 and not the PC itself. What happen to your home server? You can check the logs on both server and PC and see where the issue is. Check the PC ipconfig /all also check to make sure the PC is being seen or able to get connection. Try reseting DNS and DHCP or VPN services on that PC.