I am trying to establish a VPN connection using PPTP from an XP Pro laptop to an NT4.0 Server which is behind a D-Link DFL-300 Office Firewall.
I am using the firewall’s “Virtual Server” feature to translate the real IP address on the Internet (which XP Pro uses as the destination IP address after the dial-up Internet connection is established) to the private IP address of the NT server on my network, for the PPTP port.
I get quite a ways with the VPN connection I set up on the laptop butit stops short of a connection with the NT server with error 678: “The connection could not be completed because the remote computer did not answer the
connection request.” I have the proper permissions set in RAS but up until now have only accessed it by way of a direct dial-up (POTS) to an external modem connected to COM1.
If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate their help in allowing me to give users access to the domain from anywhere they travel in the world. I know this is not an unusual thing to do but so far I can’t seem to get any straight-forward answers. How’s everyone else doing it?
Thank you
Todd