VPN woes

Does he want to connect to the VPN on the server at home, or does he want a VPN to esablish itself between his home computer and work?

To setup the VPN, you need to go into Routing and Remote Access in Administrative tools, and go through the wizard to set it up...

I'm not sure if this answers your question, but if you post a little more detail, I can try to help you out a little more.

Hope this helps.

Mike

As said before, you need to have more detail, but if it between the two workstations, set it up using remote access & routing (it has a wizard to help you) and then use that IP to "login" to that server. A better source of help would be the 2k helpsystem, or technet

Please read the Technet article:
HOW TO: Provide Secure Point-to-Point Communications Across the Internet in Windows 2000 (Q301194):
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q301194

And then try the Remote Access section of How It Works on the Microsoft site for a bunch of links to white papers on VPN:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/communications/remoteaccess/default.asp

hope this helps.

you (he) can set up a VPN and then establish a dial on demand connection (in Routing and Remote Access)

The correct answer as noted above is to configure a persistent demand dial VPN. The help documetns in W2000 will get you 90% there - but you will need to futz with the settings to get it to work reliably. The key is to realize that if the link goes down you have to have one connection "call" and the other "listen". If both are calling you can never reconnect. If you get stuck let me know and I can provide more detail. The directions microsoft gives in W2K built in help are right up to a point - that point is when they tell you to set the connections as "always available" - redialing fails if you do this.

I learned all about this the hard way, trust me on this one.

Tom Snyder
tpsnyder@xantrion.com

You did leave out of your question some specific detail. However, the general steps required for setting up the client for automatic VPN at startup are as follows:

There are two ways to create a VPN connection: By dialing an Internet service provider (ISP), or by connecting directly to the Internet.

If you dial–in to an ISP, your ISP then makes another call to the private network’s remote access server to establish the PPTP or L2TP tunnel. After authentication, you can access the private network.

If you are already connected to the Internet, on a local area network, a cable modem, or a digital subscriber line (DSL), you can make a tunnel through the Internet and connects directly to the remote access server. After authentication, you can access the corporate network.

To make a virtual private network (VPN) connection:

Open Network Connections. (Click Start, click Control Panel, click Network and Internet Connections, and then click Network Connections)

Under Network Tasks, click Create a new connection, and then click Next.

Click Connect to the network at my workplace, and then click Next.

Click Virtual Private Network connection, click Next, and then follow the instructions in the wizard.
You can create multiple VPN connections by copying them in the Network Connections folder. You can then rename the connections and modify connection settings. By doing so, you can easily create different connections to accommodate multiple hosts, security options, and so on.

If you have an active Winsock Proxy client, you cannot create a VPN. A Winsock Proxy client immediately redirects data to a configured proxy server before the data can be processed in the fashion required by a VPN. To establish a VPN, you should disable the Winsock Proxy client.

Good luck,

Maxwell

Turn on the power.

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I currently use Watchguard firebox's MUVPN that I've installed on multiple laptops where I work and it works really good and if you don't deactivate the icon on the taskbar (which is by right-clicking it and either selecting deactivate or disconnectall) it well come on as long as your DSL line is still plugged in it took alot of configuring with .wgx files and other things to get the bugs worked out on the first couple but now its pretty easy, I don't know what VPN you are using but Watchguardis pretty good.

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