Re: VPN connects but cannot browse network

"Little Elvis" <LittleElvis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The DNS and WINS are set properly I can see that when I test it from
another
machine. I'm missing some routing somewhere. Probably just a tick box.

No. There is no "routing" here to deal with

If your DNS and WINS are correct you should be able to ping the names (both
the netbios name and the FQDN) and it should return the correct LAN IP#
(even if the ping itself fails).

I'm being polite about your response...

I have no idea why you mentioned that.
I always try to go directly to the real problem,...which may not have
anything to do with the actual question asked because sometimes (a lot of
the time, actually) people are asking for the wrong thing.

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Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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There is no Static Routes. The user is already *in* the subnet they are
using,..there is no where to route to.

"Browsing" requires functional Name Resolution. VPN provides a
connection,..that's it,..just a connection,...nothing else. Your Name
Resolution has to be done by allowing your clients to get the proper DNS
and
WINS specs via the DHCP. This usually reqires the DHCP Relay Agent to be
added within RRAS when RRAS is being used as your VPN "engine".

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or
Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
-----------------------------------------------------



"Little Elvis" <LittleElvis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have setup a Server 2008 with RRAS and the Routing services. This
machine
has only a single NIC and is behind a NAT router and firewall. I have
forwarded port 1723 and GRE to the IP of the server.

My clients can sucessfully connect but they cannot access my network. I
want
them to use the Sharepoint services which is on the same machine as the
VPN
server.

I have my own DHCP and DNS cache located on another machine. I have
setup
VPN to assign remote IP addresses from the DHCP. This does happen
properly.
But users cannot browse my network nor access any of the webservers.
The
network access just times out in IE according to my users.

What have I missed? NPS seems properly setup...connections are allowed.
No
IP restrictions at all. Enable Router Manager is ticked on the
Interface.
I've looked around everywhere I can for a couple of days now and can't
see
what I've done wrong.

Wondering if I should use static routes instead. and create a separate
pool
of IP address in another subnet? I'm not a networking expert
either...this
is
challenge for me.

VP server is:
IP 192.168.1.231
gateway 192.168.1.254 (router)
mask 255.255.0.0

I was thinking the pool will be 192.168.2.x
and setup static route as:
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.231

I'm not a networking expert and my user's don't know a thing about
computers...so I'm not getting much help either.

Any ideas what I've done wrong?

Sal.





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