PPTP server can't ping windows clients only

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Hello. I’ve set up Mikrotik PPTP Server. Everything is working except I can’t ping VPN clients (windows only)

Network is 192.168.21.0/24 on server mikrotik
Network for client mikrotik 192.168.88.0/24
Network for VPN is 192.168.4.0/24

I connect mikrotik with network 192.168.88.0/24 to mikrotik with network 192.168.21.0/24
Ip addresses is local addess 192.168.4.2 remote 192.168.4.3
Also I set up ip route rules on both sides.

I set masquerade rule on vpn interface in the client mikrotik. And masquerade rule for all ppp in the server mikrotik.

From client I can ping everything. From server I can ping only no windows stuff. For example I can get access to 192.168.88.252 (network printer) but can’t get access to 192.168.88.251 (this is windows 7 machine)

What am I misssing?

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Windows Firewall.
It’s blocking pings by default on client OS versions. Very annoying.
-Chris

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But I can ping windows machine from LAN if I do it from network 192.168.88.0/24 but I can’t do it from other network 192.168.21.0/24. Is that what you are saying?

Also I’m unable to connect via rdp, although access is enabled. Maybe it has to do something with Mikrotik firewall?

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Yes, that’s what I’m saying.
I’m almost certain that your router’s firewall is configured correctly.
Windoze firewall only considers connected subnets as “local” and allows access from them.
Try adding src-nat rules to your routers to verify this.
Once verified, remove the src-nat rules and add appropriate rules to Windows firewall.

-Chris

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Yes, It was windows firewall. Thank you.