RE: Upgraded to sbs2003 now Cisco VPN access fails on some id's



Hi Dave,

Thank you for posting in SBS newsgroup.

From the description, do you mean some user accounts can not establish the
VPN connection with the external Cisco 3005 concentrator using Cisco VPN
clients from inside the SBS 2003 network?

If so, based on my knowledge, the Cisco VPN client is a client side
connection manage program for Cisco VPN server. It uses L2TP/IPSec VPN
method. If it is not a Cisco Concentrator 3300, I'm afraid that you may not
be able to establish the VPN connection by using IPsec. As IPSec is
designed, it doesn't allow going through a firewall (NAT) to connect for
security reasons.

818043 L2TP/IPSec NAT-T Update for Windows XP and Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=818043

You may refer to the following KB article:

812076 How to enable a Cisco IPSec VPN client to connect to a Cisco VPN
concentrator through ISA Server 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;812076

You can refer to the port usage described in the KB. For UDP port 500 and
4500, we can use the pre-defined protocol definitions in ISA server 2004
(IKE Client and IPSec NAT-T Client). For UDP port 10000, you may want to
create a new protocol definition for this. Please create a rule to allow
the three protocols from internal network to external.

Please also make sure that the clients are running in SecureNAT mode. The
VPN pass-through would not work in firewall client method.

More info:
http://www.isaserver.org/articles/IPSec_Passthrough.html

Please understand that since this is a third-party VPN solution with
specific design, we cannot guarantee it will work fine with the ISA
firewall. You may also need to involve the Cisco support into this issue.
Some settings on the VPN client or the server could also affect the VPN
connection through a firewall. Anyway, I will try my best to help you on
this issue.

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I am appreciated your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

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| Thread-Topic: Upgraded to sbs2003 now Cisco VPN access fails on some id's
| | From: "=?Utf-8?B?RGF2ZVI=?=" <DaveR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Subject: Upgraded to sbs2003 now Cisco VPN access fails on some id's
| Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 13:49:27 -0800
| | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
| |
| I upgraded from SBS200 to SBS2003. I have a Cisco 3005 concentrator for
vpn
| access which worked on sbs2000. Now on some id's not all, the user cannot
| authenticate through the Cisco concentrator. I have applied SP1 for
sb2003.
| It does not make any difference in which groups a user is in, an admin
| account may not work but just a domain user will work. I can create a new
| user and it will work.
| Cisco says they are just passing the information through Kerberos to AD.
| thanks
|

.



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