From: "Constantinescu Nicolaie" <kosson at gmail dot com>

> Problem 1: Although the client gets connected, issuing the ipconfig
> commmand the VPN client figures with the public IP assigned to his
> firewall and not with an IP given by the VPN service.
> Problem 2: Although the client gets connected after 1 minute the
> connection is lost.
> Problem 3: Although the connection exists the client cannot see the
> network behind VPN (no ping, no nothing)

It sounds like this may be a problem at the client side.  What OS is on the 
client?  Is "Use default gateway on remote network" set?  Is the Windows 
firewall turned off for PPtP?

                            Lee