RE: Remote access to SBS2003

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Hello
kfrost

Tryed to download and use your sox, but im not sure how to start it. where
should I place the sox.exe?

BE
O.Lund

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"kfrost" wrote:

Hello Neil,

One thing stands out in your post and it's you say you open the ports on the
firewall. Please forgive me if this is obvious to you but are you forwarding
the ports to the internal IP address of the SBS server?

You use the analogy of letting friends connect via remote assistance. It's
been a while since I used remote assistance but my recollection is you have
to initiate a Remote Assistance connection so that isn't a legit test.
Mainly because firewall is going to block outside traffic trying to initiate
a connection to a the ports internal. If you kick off Remote assistance
you're internal machine is initiating the connection, going through nat and
your friends machine is just responding to traffic so that is going to make
it back through the firewall without opening ports.

I'm with Les, I just use RDP which is 3389. You may want to just try that
first until you get the problem sorted out. To help out troubleshooting
these situations, I've posted this util several times but you can use it in a
situation such as this to see if traffic to a specific TCP port is making
there successfully or not.

I call it sox. You can find it at:
http://www.n-sv.com/nsv20/Utilities/Sox.aspx

You can put in the external IP address of your router or FQDN and then port
3389 for example if you want to see if RDP traffic is making it to the
destination. All it does is try to setup a 3 way handshake and then
disconnect. If it fails you'll get one of two exceptions.
1) A connection attempt failed....... If you get this, then the traffic
isn't making it to the a machine.

2) No Conection could be made because the target machine actively refused
it. This means it found the server but it's not responding on that port.
Obvious causes, service isn't running or firewall on the machine is blocking
the traffic.

http://www.n-sv.com/nsv20/Utilities/Sox.aspx

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