Re: DNS Lookup from VPN Clients

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From: Darren Woodford (darrenw_at_nospamme.woodfordcomputers.co.uk)
Date: 04/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 23:13:49 +0100

"David Jones [MSFT]" <dajones@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:O2jTLLmHEHA.320@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

> Got it. What do you want the VPN clients to be able to do? Generally,
you
> want the VPN to end at the inside of whatever network you're trying to
> access.
Yes. Connect to Exchange (Outlook or OWA), SQL, File Shares etc.

>
> So if you want these VPN clients to have full access to the SBS server
like
> they were actually SBS clients, you'd want to have them VPN and end up on
> the same network as the SBS internal NIC.
I cant see why they cant access the server through the external NIC and
control the level of access with ISA? I would like to know why we cant do
this for my own peace of mind from a technical point of view really.
Everything seems set fine in ISA but for some reason I think the firewall
service seems to be blocking the requests.

>
> Since you have 2 NICs, plus the router, the easiest way to do that is to
> configure the router to forward port 1723 and protocol 47 (GRE or PPTP
> pass-through) onto the SBS server. In that case, you'd also want to run
the
> "Configure Remote Access" wizard on the server as well. Then your clients
> would VPN directly into the SBS machine, and have full access like they
were
> actually plugged in there.
I will look into this option. Before we migrated from SBS2000 to SBS2003 we
used to create a second VPN tunnel to the server within the VPN tunnel to
the router. But now even after creating this second tunnel we are still
having trouble accessing any of the sbs server resources.

>
> David Jones
> SBS Product Team
>
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>

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