Re: NO VPN OR REMOTE DESKTOP

Thanks,

I'll try it over the weekend. brad

"CO-DBA-SC-EL" wrote:

Your configuration is
D-Link router <-> SBS <-> switch <-> workstations, right?
If not, try to reconfigure the hardware that way. Then, if your router is
192.168.1.1, your external NIC on the SBS is 192.168.1.10 that's fine. But
on your external NIC configuration you should set the gateway to
192.168.1.1 also. Let the CEICW wizard guide you and read the online help as
it goes.
The internal NIC at 192.168.16.2 should be fine. All the workstations should
be able to get their IP configuration from the SBS server through DHCP.

Now, on the D-Link, you must forward the ports specified in the SBS
documentation to 192.168.1.10 (the external NIC on the SBS). Turn off the
D-Link VPN for the time being. From home, for remote access you just use
"https://(public ip address of your router) /remote" in your web browser,
and that should get you a login into the SBS, where you can choose the
remote computer you want to access with remote desktop. No complicated VPN
set up, that is all done for you by the CEICW wizard. You should click the
More Info buttons while you are running the CEICW and read the online
documentation; one of the help screens shows the list of ports to forward.

If, from home, you want to go directly to the machine to control remotely,
there is a way, but it comes at a cost. I use a different configuration with
VPN and DHCP handled by my NAT/router/firewall, and the SBS set up with a
single NIC, which allows me a shortcut because I can go directly to the IP
of the SBS server or of any workstation with Remote Desktop Connection when
I am connected through the VPN, rather than going in through the web
browser. That is actually a side benefit, not the main reason why I use the
single NIC configuration and the VPN. But that is definitely more
complicated to set up than the standard two-NIC configuration described
above. You may have observed that some people on this newsgroup seem to have
a passionate dislike for the single-NIC configuration; that is because it
*is* more difficult to get working right.

C_O

"Brad" <Brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have recently reconfigured my server with internal and external nics.
After resetting the router (due to programming problems) I'm no longer
able
to access the vpn. We had an outside source install the vpn using PPTP
over
our frac T-1 and it did work [slowly and poorly] for a couple weeks. We
use
sbs 2003 standard on a Dell poweredge 2800 with a D-Link DI- 808HV VPN
router
and a Linksys switch. SBS hosts the DHCP which is NOT functioning right
now
(as my other states).

When I try to remote desktop into the server from home, I don't know what
IP
to enter for the server network address (we have a .local domain) or how
to
setup the vpn in general. My router is 192.168.1.1, the external nic is
192.168.1.10 with a 192.168.16.2 gateway and the internal nic w/o a
gateway
is 192.168.16.2. Is there somewhere to find step by step -hand holding-
instruction for this? thanks brad


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