Re: VPN Connection - Can't establish connection!

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From: Marina Roos [SBS-MVP] (marina_at_roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 02:51:44 +0100

Hi,

It is protocol 47 also known as PPTP pass-through, not port 47. Error 721 is
pointing to the Gre protocol. 

-- 
Regards,
Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP
"Rogue_Canuck" <RogueCanuck@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:1189E367-D25D-419F-BD28-54E6C2D926C3@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have not tried the VPN connection within the LAN but will do so.  Port
> 1723 is forwarded as part of the UPnP configuration of the router.  I have
> tried to add port 47 but that does not seem to have helped.
>
> Error message is '721: Computer not responding'
>
> "Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can you successfully connect with VPN within your network? From outside
you
> > will need to vpn to your public IP. You will need to forward port 1723
and
> > the GRE protocol 47 from the router to your SBS. Which exact
errormessage do
> > you get?
> >
> > -- 
> > Regards,
> >
> > Marina
> > Microsoft SBS-MVP
> >
> > "Rogue_Canuck" <RogueCanuck@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in
bericht
> > news:11BB4694-2C6C-42F2-974C-B59852F0FF0F@microsoft.com...
> > > I am trying to establish a VPN connection with a SBS 2003 Standard
server.
> > > The server is behind a router that allows IPSec, PPTP and PPPOE
> > passthrough.
> > > I can establish remote desktop connections to the SBS box and they
have
> > > internet access from the server.
> > >
> > > Router is BEFSX41 (Linksys) and will support 2 VPN tunnels although I
have
> > > disabled this feature as it seems to want to tunnel to a similar
device on
> > > another network.
> > >
> > > I have run the Remote Access Wizard a couple of times with different
> > values
> > > in the server name field.   I have tried the SERVER.domain.local name
and
> > the
> > > IP of the router's WAN connection.  I have also tried the LAN IP of
the
> > SBS
> > > server.
> > >
> > > As you can tell the SBS box only has 1 NIC card and is not running the
> > > internal firewall.
> > >
> > > Ultimately I am trying to establish a number of VPN connections for
remote
> > > clients so that they may access data user specific folders on the SBS
box.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
> > > -- 
> > > Thanks and have a great day,
> > >
> > > Rogue
> >
> >
> >

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