WK2 VPN: temporary 169.254.x.x IP address being assigned.

Hello there,

Hope someone can help me. I think my question might be rather easy (I must be missing something!)

I am trying to set-up PPTP VPN for 5 clients in my organisation. I manage to "dial-in" and connect to the network. Although it works and I can see the server, the client is assigned with a temporary IP address of 169.254.x.x as if there was no DHCP server in my network.

My network information:

Network: 192.168.100.x
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.100.254
DNS: 192.168.100.1 (the everything server)

Server is pretty much running everything: DC, DHCP, DNS, RAS, etc.

How I set-up RAS:

1. Started RAS
2. Right click server and chosen "Configure and Enable RAS"
3. Selected the Remote Access Server option (I followed the instructions at http://neworder.box.sk/news/13395), selecting RAS will give me 5 VPN ports with PPTP and 5 with L2TP.
4. I tried first to assign IPs using my DHCP server, and then I tried using a pool from 192.168.100.101 to 192.168.100.105. Both options give me the same result (that is, an IP of 169.254.x.x assigned).
5. I am not using RADIUS.

I also tried to add my Local Area Connection under DHCP Relay agent in RAS, and I also tried to right-click the DHCP Relay Agent contained and add my DHCP server IP address (192.168.100.1) to the list.

Still, I can't figure out how to have an IP address of 192.168.100.x assigned to my VPN clients. At the moment the clients CAN ping/access the 192.168.100.1 server's IP address, but they can't see anything else on the 192.168.100.x subnet, and the connection to the internet drops on the client when it dials-in as well.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Regards,
Pedro

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