Accessing windows 2003 firewall settings with RRAS enabled
Windows Server 2003 (VPS) Trying to install MySQL, but the service isn’t starting – suspect the port is being blocked by the firewall. One of my Google searches lead me to...
View ArticleIntermittently failing PPTP VPN connections
I’m two weeks in as the System Administrator at a midsize manufacturing company with executives and sales staff who make heavy use of remote access. From almost the day I arrived, I started getting...
View ArticleMoving to DHCP relay with our Cisco routers and Windows 2008. How to...
We currently have a pretty simple setup. We have a 2008 Windows Server using DHCP for our clients. We have a remote site that has 10 people. The remote site currently get their IPs from the router,...
View ArticleCan’t connect to RRAS server remotely
I have a Windows Server 2003 with RRAS (1 NIC) configured. It works like a charm when I connect to the VPN server directly on the same LAN. But it fails when I try to connect to it from the WAN. So I...
View ArticleIs it possible to have an account login more than once to Windows Server 2k3...
I’m creating an account for one of our support vendors to be able to login to VPN on our Windows 2003 AD domain. There may be multiple engineers logging in to the network, so is there a way to have a...
View ArticleRRAS won’t route with a /23, but will with two /24
I’ve had a route in Windows Server 2008 R2 RRAS that’s been working for a long time, which is 192.168.100.0/24. The network on the other side of that link recently added a new subnet, 192.168.101.0/24...
View ArticleWhat is solicited network traffic and what is unsolicited network traffic?
I’ve recently read a Microsoft Technet article on how Windows Firewall works. The author of the article uses concepts like ‘solicited network traffic’ and ‘unsolicited network traffic’ for a machine....
View ArticleHow can I set a remote access policy / gpo to deny RAS VPN access to a...
On my Windows 2000 Native domain, I want to prevent service accounts from being able to connect via our MS VPN. (Via a Win2000 RAS server.) Say my AD structure is like this: MyDomain MyUsers...
View ArticleWindows 2008 Standard 64bit only have VPN & Dial Up options in Routing and...
System: Windows 2008 SP2 Standard Version 64Bit Network Card: only 1 Object: Set up VPN Guide: http://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/server-2008-r2-pptp-vpn-with-1-nic.html Problem: How come I can only see...
View ArticleWhy would NPS suddenly stop authenticating users?
We use a computer running Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) with the RRAS and NPS roles to authenticate users for VPN and wireless access over RADIUS. This configuration has been working great for more...
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