Re: SBS 2003 and self signed SSL certificate

Hi Cary,

I got the Rem Workplazce runnig and everything live except for the remote
desktop links to the server and the locak desktops ......

You talked about me trying RDC and see if I can hit the server ..... if my
VPN connection is running sure, it's happy .... if I try just from RDC
without starting up the VPN it barfs.

What troubleshooting things can I try to the RDC to just run .....

I open RDC, type in the IP address of the server, and hit enter, I get the
prompt for the login credintals and my password and I put them both in, and
hit OK. It thinks about it for a bit and comes back with: The error box,
REMOTE DESKTOP DISCONNECTED This computer can't connect to the remote
computer. Try connecting again. if the problem continues, contact the owner
of the remote computer or your network admin.

I have enabled remote desktop on the server and I have the ports open and
3389 is setup to pass anywhere to anywhere in the router.

Any ideas?

Cheers'
Dave


"Cary Shultz" wrote:

Dave,

I just set this up for a new customer (SBS2003 Standard - so no ISA) and the
server has only one NIC....

I had to set up the firewall to open up TCP Port 4125 (the others...80 and
443 and 3389.... were already opened) and point it to the internal LAN IP
Address of the SBS2003 Server. Before I did that I was getting the "The
remote connection could not be made. Maybe the client is too busy..blah!
Blah! blah!" error message. Immediately after doing this I was able to
connect.

I did RDP into the server and from the server into a workstation just to
make sure that everything on the workstation was correct. It was. It was
simply the Firewall Rule that needed to be created.

The ICW (okay, I am using the SBS2000 name for it!!!) was already run and
RWW was 'enabled'. And, for the record...I am getting the same "cert - pink
condition" error that you are getting.

Have you verified that the users in the SBS2003 Domain are members of the
correct Security Group and that the domain user in question is a member of
the Remote Desktop Users security group on the machine that he/she is trying
to access (and that Remote Desktop is enabled)? Try to RDP into the server
(from outside the network) and from there try to RDP into a WINXP SP2 box?
Can you do this?

Cary

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Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012
"Dave Cason" <DaveCason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:847E3B15-0A79-4AA6-9F9E-CB555B6EED8E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yep, tell me about it ! (grin)

Well there is two issues ....one, that self cert and my browser error, and
two, the bigger one ....access to the RWW from outside the domain.

If I ignore the cert error after a few clicks I can get in and run RWW
from
here in the office by pointing to the servers internal IP 192 ..... if I
try
to hit it from outside the office and use the 68.179..... like I said I
can
hit the Welcome page. (which now has thee right spelling of the company
name, thanks ! ) but not get in to RWW.

The ports I have to have open are 4125 and 443 so I'm just going to troll
my
firewall settings and see what's in there......

I did read in an SBS post that did say you have to run CEICW to make sure
that it's published and I've done that so I'll leave the cert error for
now
and try to get RWW access from the world running ......

Can you think of anything else I need to worry about, the router is a
Nortel
Conntivity 221?

Cheers'
Dave

"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

This shouldn't be this hard Dave. Something isn't right. Are you
logging
in from an external computer (outside your network)? I tried to RWW to
your
domain using (mail.----.com) but I keep getting a DNS error. In your
router
will need to make sure that ports 443 and 4125 are forwarded to the IP
address of your external NIC.

--
Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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