Windows 2003 vpn server settings

This article series' scope is simply to get a PPTP server up and running and accepting connections from clients. One option I never recommend that you enable is the "Automatically use my Windows logon name and password and domain if any " option since it can result in a big, gaping security hole.

Basically, if you forget to log out, or whatever, anyone that walks up to the client computer could connect to your organization's network and do what they will. It's not that much work to type a user name and password. This tab provides a means for you to configure the various network options for this connection. The first option asks you about the type of VPN to which you're connecting.

If you want, you can set this specifically to PPTP. At the bottom of this window, you can change network settings, including IP addressing information. One setting, in particular, deserves attention: the choice of whether the VPN connection will use the default gateway of the remote network as its own default gateway. By default, Windows configures new connections with the option enabled that uses the default gateway on the remote network.

This can often cause problems with confused traffic, and you might find that a connected client is only able to use resources on the remote network when this is enabled. This setting may be required if you need to access resources on different subnets at your company. In these cases, use the remote network's default gateway and disconnect if you have trouble accessing Internet resources.

If you're on a smaller network, or only need to access resources on the local subnet, disable this gateway feature. On the Advanced settings window, uncheck the box "Use default gateway on remote network". Short version: If you need to access resources on multiple networks at your company, use the remote gateway.

If not, don't use the remote gateway. The Advanced tab does not have any options that would be useful for a typical connection. You can configure the Windows firewall and Internet Connection Sharing from this tab, though. Now that you're connection is configured, you can click the Connect button on the main window.

After you do so, you can select the connection in Network Connections and view its properties. Depending on how you are connected to the internet I don't know what embc is unfortunately either you if you are directly connected or someone at your LEA will have to set up port forwarding to allow port and ip protocol 47 GRE to connect to your remote access server. If you are directly connected this will involve going into your router and finding a setting called port forwarding or virtual server and setting up these ports to point to your windows server ip.

If your internet access is handled as part of a larger group of school you will need to talk to them about opening the required ports. Its easy to setup and I seem to remember that MS provide a step by step guide for the setup too. You'll also need to tell them what type of VPN you're using so they can add your server to the appropriate firewall rule s.

Can you revert to a free version? How limited are you on the free version? Re: VPN Setup on Windows R2 server i think the trial is for the extras that comes with logmein, i think the remote access part stay available. It should work through EMBC, it certainly does at the schools I support with embc anyway I havent found many LEA provided networks that don't allow logmein through although some do block the url unfourtunatly.

However, if DHCP isn't available, you must specify a range of static addresses. Click Next to continue. If you clicked From a specified range of addresses , the Address Range Assignment dialog box opens.

Click New. Type the first IP address in the range of addresses that you want to use in the Start IP address box. Windows calculates the number of addresses automatically. Accept the default setting of No, use Routing and Remote Access to authenticate connection requests , and then click Next to continue. For the remote access server to forward traffic properly inside your network, you must configure it as a router with either static routes or routing protocols, so that all of the locations in the intranet are reachable from the remote access server.

The number of dial-up modem connections is dependent on the number of modems that are installed on the server. For example, if you have only one modem installed on the server, you can have only one modem connection at a time. The number of dial-up VPN connections is dependent on the number of simultaneous users whom you want to permit.

By default, when you run the procedure described in this article, you permit connections. To change the number of simultaneous connections, follow these steps:.

You can also configure a static IP address pool. Configure the dial-in properties on user accounts and remote access policies to manage access for dial-up networking and VPN connections. To grant dial-in access to a user account if you're managing remote access on a user basis, follow these steps:. If the VPN server already permits dial-up networking remote access services, do not delete the default policy. Instead, move it so that it is the last policy to be evaluated. To set up a connection to a VPN, follow these steps.

To set up a client for virtual private network access, follow these steps on the client workstation:. Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps. Click Create a new connection under Network Tasks , and then click Next. Click Connect to the network at my workplace to create the dial-up connection.

Type a descriptive name for this connection in the Company name dialog box, and then click Next. Click Do not dial the initial connection if the computer is permanently connected to the Internet. Click Next. Click Anyone's use if you want to permit any user who logs on to the workstation to have access to this dial-up connection.

Click My use only if you want this connection to be available only to the currently logged-on user. Click Properties to continue to configure options for the connection.

That's it for the RRAS wizard! You're provided with a summary screen that details the selections you made. By default, users are not granted access to the services offered by the VPN; you need to grant these rights to each user that you want to allow remote access to your network. To do this, open Active Directory Users and Computers for domains or Computer Management for stand alone networks , and open the properties page for a user to whom you'd like to grant access to the VPN.

Select that user's Dial-In properties page. On this page, under Remote Access Permissions, select "Allow access". Note that there are a lot of different ways to "dial in to" a Windows Server system; a VPN is but one method. Other methods include wireless networks, This article assumes that you're not using the Windows features for these other types of networks.

If you are, and you specify "Allow access", a user will be able to use multiple methods to gain access to your system. I can't go over all of the various permutations in a single article, however.

These are the steps needed on the server to get a VPN up and running. Of course, if you have devices such as firewalls between your VPN server and the Internet, further steps may be required; these are beyond the scope of this article, however. Figure B The summary screen is pretty basic for this role Take note: This selection just starts another wizard called the Routing and Remote Access Wizard, described further below.

The Routing and Remote Access Wizard component. Editor's Picks.