Re: Connect to Small Business Server not working

Tried setting up my own VPN connection.

It fails with error 800 " ........ VPN Server may be unreachable or
security parameters ....."

Interestingly (or not!) I can RDC into either of the two IPs or the
"intranet.<my domain>.org" address.

So, RDC works, VPN doesn't....

JK


On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:04:38 -0500, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John F Kappler <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is on SBS 2003 R2 Premium.

Two or three of our remote users have been commenting that the Connect
Computer shortcut on the desktop of their Laptops fails to make a
connection.

I'm suspicious that its just down to a poor internet connection at
their end, but it does seem to have coincided with a change we made to
the server's internet connection recently.

We now have two ADSL lines, each with static IP, connected to two
modems and into a load balancing router (Draytek 2910) which in turn
hangs off the server's external NIC.

After we got this working, we reran CEICW just to be on the safe side
and the internet connection is working fine.

The sub-domain (intranet.<ourdomain>.com) has also been updated to
reflect there are two static IPs.

What do you mean by this?

Would any of this be stopping the connection getting made?

Sure. Could be. What's the FQDN you use for inbound connectivity? You'll
need something that's dynamically updated based on the current IP, if you
want this to work when you've got a failover situation. I don't know the
Draytek line but I know a lot of routers/firewalls have a dynamic DNS
option. I use www.dyndns.com - if you use them to host your DNS, you can
even use whatever.mydomain.com rather than hostname.dynamicdnsdomain.com.

Or do the remote users need an updated shortcut on to their PCs?

Don't worry about the shortcuts until you've tested the VPN connections
themselves....

I think I've asked this before - am I right in believing that the
only way to get a new shortcut on to the PC is to delete the PC from
the computers list and then re-add it?

My heavens, I'd hope not. I don't use whatever shortcut it is you're talking
about - I manually create VPN connections when I need them (I don't use VPN
much).

Any help much appreciated,

TIA,

JohnK

You don't need a shortcut to test your VPN. You can test this yourself from
any outside computer....create a new PPTP VPN connection using the wizard in
your Network Connections folder and see what happens. Try with one IP or the
other. See what happens.


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