Re: VPN Error 733, Event Log Error 20050 with SBS 2003

I'm positive there have been no funny reconfigurations made on this box
as I installed it. Its a completely vanilla SBS2K3 install running on
Dell hardware. I've set up dozens of these without any problems before
so I'm really perplexed.

Also, as far as I'm aware you can't reinstall RRAS (I think you could
on NT, but I've been wrong before). Unfortunately its also a live
server so a re-build is out of the question.

Thanks for your help though, it gave me a couple of other options.
Hopefully one of those nice people at Microsoft will pick this up in
the morning


Joe wrote:
Nick Marks wrote:
Thanks for getting back to me Joe

I've run through your suggestions; I checked in RRAS ports and I've got
all 5 miniports, so no problem there, however, when I look in my DHCP
leases can only see the LAN clients. I assume I have no entries for RAS
because no VPN clients have ever got as far as being assigned an
address. Also, I'm trying to assign client addresses from a static pool
outside the DHCP range (my pool is from x.x.x.40-49 and my DHCP range
is x.x.x.50-254)

I don't think there's any need to do that, but it shouldn't do any harm
either.

I've also looked at your pointers for enabling all authentication
methods. As suggested I've enabled all authentication and encryption
methods on both the server and client. Still no cigar, same error
messages

For the record, I'm sure the problem isnt with routing; I cant
establich a PPTP connection when I'm on the same LAN as the server.
Also, when I tested with pptpsvr/pptpclnt the server received the
message from the client (but the client never received a message back
from the server)

Any other ideas?



On the basis that there is one server and multiple clients, we can
probably assume the server is at fault. Have you looked after this
server from installation, or could there have been configurations made
you don't know about? Certainly PPTP should work out-of-the-box from a
LAN machine after the appropriate selections are made in the Remote
Access and CEIC wizards. But there's an enormous number of ways to
stop it happening, if someone else has been playing around.

I can't recall if RRAS is one of those bits of Windows that's easy to
reinstall, but if so, I think I'd try that next. The PPP negotiation
isn't working, and you've eliminated the common causes. I think I'd
want to start again with a known clean RRAS, and I would assume that
if reinstallation is practical, that would happen.

It's also possible that after the weekend one of the Microsoft people
will come back with a rigorous sequence of checks. I've just picked
things up as I've gone along. I don't have any flow diagrams for the
system, or documentation on the log files. If you've enabled 'tracing',
by the way, there are *lots* of log files in the directory of that name.

.

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