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Configure Windows XP Pro as a remote access server

Nice work Deb, this should be a useful one.

I knew about the ICF auto-configuration feature where the ports were automatically opened. How ever, I wonder if this is because of UPnP. If that is the case, then using any UPnP firewall should also have the same desirable feature of auto-configuration. I'll have to try this on my Linksys router with UPnP to see if it will also reconfigure it self to permit inbound L2TP and PPTP.

The Problem you describe in the last part of your article:

"Clients connecting to your computer can?t access resources on other computers on the LAN, even though you have checked the checkbox to allow them to do so. Allocating a set of IP addresses for remote clients that are not a subset of the LAN addresses can cause this problem. In this case, you should either change the allocated address range so that it will be a subset of the LAN addresses, or configure the computers on the LAN with a default gateway setting that matches the IP address of the incoming connections computer."

has me confused. This is the exact problem I am experiencing, and I have tried a lot of different combinations, but still no luck. I get the remote computer registered on the network, but cannot see any resources nor connect to network drives. Ideas???

Thanks!

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I followed the connection but i'm on a dsl line line with a router. In my incoming connections i can't see my conection! Plz help>
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Awesome, Deb. I wish all other networking/Windows articles/guides were this simple, straight-forward and easily understood. Thank you.

Hi! Assuming i've set up the Remote Access Server as described above, will my dial-up client gain internet access as well? Apart from shared folder access? (I'm currently connected to DSL via a broadband router)

Thanks!

i configured my windows as RAS
but there's problem,the phone line is behind the PABX
the phone line extension is 105,& the extension to make call outside is 9,
how do i configure it ?

please answer me at
ryandard@gmail.com
or ym ry_and_ard
thxb4

This article was very helpful, and solved the problem I had been having with setting up the dial-up network. I had managed to set up the server and client, and they could connect, but I could not access the server resources, besides being able to ping the server. The answer was to set the IP address range to the next numbers following the ones used by the ADSL connection.
I can now dial-up from my office to home on the XP computer and access the internet; but my older computer running Win98SE is a problem.
On the dial-up setup on XP there is a checkbox "use Windows logon domain", which is unchecked. On Win98 I can find no such similar setting, and after connecting, I get a dialog box asking again for Username and Password, but also Logon domain. I don't have one, and not filling it in cuts me off.
Is there a way around this, or can I set up a user domain on the server that I can then enter from the client when logging on?

Is there a way to backup the User "Users allowed to connect" (Figure H) from the Incomming Connection? I have to move them to a new server...

Regards,

Roland