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Configure a Windows Server 2003 VPN on the server side

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How many of your users connect to your network via VPN? How much trouble is it for you to maintain?

If you have any questions on this article, please let me know so they can be addressed either here or in a future article.

I believe I have followed this article correctly, but amn still unable to gain access to my office system from home. We have a Netgear N300 - DGN3500 router connected to the server. I can access the router's configurator from home using Windows 7 Ultimate, I.E. and it's IP address (###.###.###.###:8080), so at least I know I'm getting that far. What I can't seem to find anywhere are details to setting up Routing and Remote access to allow me into our system. Are there any examples anywhere which may help?

I have problems with windows vpn with the (client) connection dropping - sometimes it will last for an hour, sometimes a few minutes. In all cases I can immediately reconnect. This problem does not seem to occur with other vpn products (e.g. Cisco is one I've used and it never drops the connection), only with Windows. Anybody have any solutions?

I have the same problem as Keith any ideas would be welcome.

I had the same problem recently. I had a Netgear 602 Wireless Router/Firewall between my DSL line and my local LAN. I could connect up to a Sonciwall VPN and stay connected for days. But when I would try to connect to another client's VPN via the Win2k3 VPN Server, it would last for exactly 2min, 43 seconds...disconnect and then reconnect. I checked every setting on the MS VPN side as well as my RAS connection setup...but was unable to solve it.

The Netgear started locking up so I took an old Pentium II pc and installed SmoothWall (Linux based firewall/router http://www.smoothwall.org/) and removed the Netgear. Since that change, I can now stay connected to the MS VPN for 24hours or longer.

So my suggestion is to first check with what Firewall/Router you have locally. Try swapping it with another product or build your own and see what happens. Smoothwall even has a floppy-disk boot version so that you can take a pc and boot from a floppy without wiping the hard disk. Would be easy for you to test using this method if you have a spare pc with two network adapters in it.

I already had Routing and Remote access setup on a 2003 server with a modem. It was working fine. I added a second NIC, called it WAN. I setup the static IP, Gateway and DNS on the WAN (removed the gateway from the old LAN connection).
I re-ran the RRA config wizard, and got no errors or complaints. However, when I open Internet Explorer, it does not open any websites. I can ping the inside interface of the router. NSLookup times out. It appears I do not have DNS, yet I can ping the DNS server.

Will removing the RRA server role, rebooting, and re-adding the RRA Server Role "fix" this?

Will removing the RRA server role cause other problems?

I have here also. I set up and configure RAS using windows server but it seems no good. It took me for 5 minutes to see the other side of my network. Why is it like this? is it my internet connection or is it in the windows server problem? Please help. Thanks.

I tired to implement this at a remote site, users could VPN to the remote site, the remote site is then using a hardware VPN to connect with our main site.

Once I turn on the RRAS on our main sites' PDC the Mac clients can not connect to file shares using smb. I get a very generic error and no real logging anywhere, any guesses?

right now i try connect only one client.
but it shows remote computer not responde when verify username and password

Hi

Could you help me, I have some concept problem.

1) First you setup the internet NIC (scope 137)
2) next you setup the VPN NIC (scope 65)
3) Finally you setup the DCHP in scope 137 (but WHY?)

Why the VPN (scope 65) don't have any rol in the VPN clien? so why the clients have IP scope 137 if VPN is scope 65

Finally, why is the rol of second NIC (scope 65) if all work is about the NIC to scope 137??

Thank you

The Routing and Remote Access service terminated with service-specific error 16389 (0x4005).


i meet this problem , any idea ? i do not have any win2003 CD to install , because my win2003 in IDC, i can only remote desktop ...

Have setup a Windows Server Web edition 2003 VPN as detailed, seems OK but am getting Error 800 Unable to connect to VPN Server Error. Can ping the Static IP set on Router but it seems the VPN tunel is not getting from the Router to the Server, what do I need to configure on the Router to ensure this works.

Regards

Ian

Our Windows 2003 SP1 server does not have this wizard, not listed in the start menu anyways. Any way I can get it?

i proceed all things. but when my client try to connect from remote location its shows remote computer not responde when it tries to verify username and password.
so what should i do?

i have a network (LAN)all computers are connected in a workgroup no AD,RRAS.RADIUS, but ISA server running well in the network to handle internet connection and i want to create a vpn connection to me (single computer) onle what should i do when backbon is coming from nearest building for the router.

this is to good article for me thank's

Hi,

very helpfull artical, i am having some problem in VPN setup so can you help me on this. my problem is i am having a server ( my accounting package) which is oracle base, and my Head Want to access it from there, here i am having 64K ISDN connectivity and in Head Office they are having Lease Line, so dail up is not feasible so can i how can i configure my VPN to give access to them.

if you have any solution please let me know. my email ID is kailash.suthar@gmail.com
Kailash

Throuth ISA server shall we create VPN and shall i acess the VPN tunnel which is located in clients place with out firewall?

i had connect vpn but it goos tell give me user name and password then it disconnected

I used this article to allow my Windows 2003 Server to also be a PPTP server. However, after I do these steps users on the LAN cannot connect to the server anymore. I need LAN users to still be able to connect and I only have one interface. Adding a second interface is not an option. Can someone very experienced that has been able to solve this issue provide me the steps I need to do (or change) to allow both on the same interface?

i discus the vpn and more that

I only can get one remote client connected in. How do I change this?

can you tell me how can

I want to ascertain if I can use a Desktop or PC with Windows XP Professional SP2 to act as a VPN Server?

how can configure vpn on windpows 2003 server

clearly explained

It is very good and complete our knowledge.
Thanks

ya It's working.

configure a windows server 2003 vpn on the server side

Awesome ARticle

Hi all, I am the IT admin for my company. My comoany already has a fortigate firewall that has SSL-VPN features. What is the physical network setup that need to be done, before i build a VPN server on my windows 2003 server. My cisco router is connected to fortigate firewall, while the fortigate firewall is connected to our LAN via switch.

If I implement a vpn server, will the server be connected to the router or the fortigate firewall? Thank

very nice this steps thank u..regards-sbabu System Admin(Stream Systems)

how to configure VPN in windows server 2003 and access from client side?

with all this i can now the cofiguration this is fabulous

Well, I am now required to configure VPN for the first time and I'm not sure how/what to do.

Here is the situation, we have a Windows Server 2003 server that is located in one country and has access to certain services that are available only to IP addresses from that country. We have clients who need access to these services that are located in other countries.

The server is a standalone VMware Guest Windows Server 2003 with one NIC and one IP address. The host also has one NIC installed and it is using a different IP address, obviously.

All I need is to configure RRAS on my standalone server so it allows multiple remote users access so they can use the services available to it by location.

Do I need to install a second Virtual NIC and the DHCP service on my server and configure them to use a private IP range, and then add NAT or Routing to RRAS? Can I allow multiple users to connect to the server using a single username and password combination?

What would be the best way to go about it and what would be the required steps to accomplish this?

Thank you,

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hello friends,
I need some advice please
I have a 2003 server host, which has only one network card, and is connected to a switch for the LAN.
I have a dlink router too, which gets a public address and has set a private address for my LAN, the router is my gateway on my server. and is connected to my switch.
Yo I can configure a VPN on my server this form or need another network card. And incoming and outgoing which port should I open in my router to access my VPN.

thank you very much

Can anyone tell me the procedures that I need to setup up a windows 2003 network server, example permissions, groups and so forth

This tutorial was good, i could connect to my VPN and everything worked fine except...
Remote Desktop! After I configurated the VPN Server on my Windows Server 2003 SP1 I could not even ping the computer! It was not reachable in the network, except for VPN connection, that worked fine! D: Can anyone please help me?

PS: Sorry for my bad english, I'm from Germany