Re: VPN PPTP

From: me (me_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:23:02 -0800

SBS assigns DHCP addresses for everything.

"Vagabond Software" wrote:

> Is your router assigning DHCP addresses or does your SBS assign DHCP address, in general, not just to VPN clients?
>
> Also, when setting up your VPN connection on the client, are you listing your servers' internal IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.100) as the Primary DNS Server in the TCP/IP networking properties under the connection properties?
>
> carl
>
> "me" <me@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1722EC16-3AE5-4AE0-988F-77DBCEA2E30A@microsoft.com...
> > I’m trying to allow a remote client to connect to our SBS 2003 server via VPN
> > using PPTP. The user tries to connect but fails when trying to authenticate
> > the username and password. I verified that our router is forwarding port 1723
> > for both TCP/UDP and protocol 47 GRE. Does anyone have a suggestion? I also
> > tried L2TP and received all sorts of errors. I opened ports 500 and 1701 for
> > UDP but no luck. Unfortunately our ISP has only assigned us one static IP so
> > we can’t use our VPN Client for our Cisco Pix. Any suggestions would be
> > greatly appreciated.
>

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