Re: Remote Branch Office

In news:7E085129-A293-4E03-B73F-08AE556EE537@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Andy MacDonald <Andy MacDonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Hi - I hope somebody can help me out.

I have a customer who has a head office with a SBS2003 server and is
about to open a new branch office with two users (no server). I need
to set up some kind of VPN connection over DSL to link the offices.

Each office has a Netgear DG834 router which has support for
L2TP/IPsec VPNs. The SBS has two net cards, one for the LAN and one
connected to the router. I can create an L2TP VPN between the two
routers but because the router is in front of the SBS firewall I
can't establish a connection to the server.

Is there a way to do this, or should I be looking at having the server
terminate the VPN connection? It currently accepts incoming PPTP
connections but I beleive setting up a L2TP connection is a whole
different ball game.

I don't use the Windows Firewall on servers, but surely you can create an
exception for L2TP?

I would definitely not use PPTP if you have better options, and unless this
were for a couple of roaming/home users in different locations, I wouldn't
use a VPN client on them. A VPN WAN link makes more sense to me...they can
actually log into the domain, change passwords, etc., that way. Note that
direct file access over VPN is usually sucky where performance is
concerned...


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