Re: WS2003, XP Clients, and Network Setup Help
From: gregoryt (gregoryt_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/29/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:19:02 -0800
Thanks for your help Bill. I'm going to try setting up the network the way
you suggested.
Greg
"Bill Grant" wrote:
> This is really a bit of a can of worms. New problems may just keep
> popping up. AD plus NAT plus PPPoE plus Macs!
>
> If you must use your DC as the Internet router, you certainly should be
> using RRAS and NAT (not bridging). For AD to work, all the AD clients should
> be using the 10.0.0 IP addresses you used to set up AD, and they should be
> using the local (10.0.0.x ) DNS server.
>
> The server has an Internet connection using PPPoE. With W2k3 this can be
> set up within RRAS. The PPPoE interface becomes your "public" interface for
> NAT. The 10.0.0.x interface of the server becomes the private interface in
> NAT. NAT allows the LAN clients to share the server's Internet connection.
>
> The LAN clients get their config from DHCP on your server. They should
> get an IP in the 10.0.0.0 subnet and a default gateway and DNS setting of
> your server's 10.0.0 address. You will need to modify your local DNS so
> that it forwards requests to a public DNS server (such as your ISP's DNS).
>
> When you have AD and NAT working, you can experiment with VPN. Enable
> remote access in RRAS and try making a VPN connection from a LAN client.
> (VPN will work over the local LAN). This will let you debug the VPN config
> on your server locally.
>
> Because your RRAS server is a DC, you may get name resolution problems
> when a remote access client connects. See KB 292822 .
>
> When this works, you can try connecting from a remote client. Your
> no-ip.com address should point you to the server's current public IP. If it
> works internally, it should work over the Internet.
>
> "gregory_t" <gregoryt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A74B5BAE-0361-412C-8BBE-505762F673B0@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all. I'm hoping someone can help me.
> >
> > Here's my current setup. I have an IBM xServer running Windows 2003 Std
> > Edition. I have DHCP and AD setup. Initially, I set up DHCP's scope to
> > 10.0.0.10 - 10.0.0.25. I have 9 XP clients, and 3 eMacs so far in the
> > lab.
> > There are two NICs in the server. One for the private LAN, and the other
> > is
> > directly connected to the DSL modem. By browsing to 192.168.2.1 on the
> > Server, I'm able to access my ISP's (Bell Sympatico) setup page and enter
> > all
> > the PPPoE info I need to connect. Once this is entered, I can browse the
> > Internet on the server. However, I wasn't able to successfully access the
> > Internet form the XP clients. The only way I can get Internet access on
> > the
> > XP machines and the eMacs is by bridiging the two network cards.
> >
> > Once I bridge the connections, all the XP machines and the eMacs get an IP
> > from the server and the IPs of those are 192.168.2.10 - 192.168.2.25. On
> > the
> > server, I setup a no-ip.com account to inform me of the IP whenever it
> > changes so I can always point to the lab from a remote connection, but it
> > will also point back to the ISP setup page, and not to the server.
> > Whenever
> > I try to connect through a VPN connection, I get error 800 and have no
> > clue
> > where to go from here.
> >
> > I'd like to get VPN access to the machines but I don't know where to go
> > from
> > here. Is there a better way to get Internet access to the machines? Do I
> > need to set up routing and remote access on the server to get a VPN
> > connection? How can I open the proper ports so that my no-ip.com will
> > point
> > and access a VPN session on the server?
> >
> > Thanks for reading guys.
> >
> > G.
> >
>
>
>
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