New to VPN's

Can some one help me to start of in the right direction.
I am looking at the benefits of creating a vpn from home
to my office. I am new to this so I am not sure what I
need to acheive this. I am running SBS2000 with 1 nic,
the network runs on a private netowrk IP setting. I have
a nats setup on my router. The router has a fixed IP
address. We have an ADSL internet connection and I will
soon be upgrading to one at home from an ISDN. I do not
know how to open ports on my router it is a black box
provided by BT.
Any hlep to point me in te right directions woul dbe
gratefully recicved.

many thanks

Martin

Javier
Mon Aug 11 14:07:29 CDT 2003

You can start by taking a look at:
http://www.smallbizserver.net/sbs2000/How_do_I_connect_clients_to_the_server_using_VPN.aspx

You should really consider having SBS/ISA with 2 NICs!!! If you don't know
how to open ports on your current router...do you know if they are closed?
Do a portscan and see what you find... you might not like it.

-Javier

"Martin.Allitt" <martin.allitt@raaltd.co.uk> wrote in message
news:091001c3603a$98567b40$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Can some one help me to start of in the right direction.
> I am looking at the benefits of creating a vpn from home
> to my office. I am new to this so I am not sure what I
> need to acheive this. I am running SBS2000 with 1 nic,
> the network runs on a private netowrk IP setting. I have
> a nats setup on my router. The router has a fixed IP
> address. We have an ADSL internet connection and I will
> soon be upgrading to one at home from an ISDN. I do not
> know how to open ports on my router it is a black box
> provided by BT.
> Any hlep to point me in te right directions woul dbe
> gratefully recicved.
>
> many thanks
>
> Martin

Brandon
Mon Aug 11 15:33:43 CDT 2003

As far as opening the ports on your router . . . if you type in the ip
address of your router in a browser window on the server, it should bring up
an administrator interface to the router. One of the options there should
have to do with opening ports (although it might use a different name).

--
Brandon
IT Director
Office Equipment & Supplies at http://www.presentationsdirect.com


"Martin.Allitt" <martin.allitt@raaltd.co.uk> wrote in message
news:091001c3603a$98567b40$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Can some one help me to start of in the right direction.
> I am looking at the benefits of creating a vpn from home
> to my office. I am new to this so I am not sure what I
> need to acheive this. I am running SBS2000 with 1 nic,
> the network runs on a private netowrk IP setting. I have
> a nats setup on my router. The router has a fixed IP
> address. We have an ADSL internet connection and I will
> soon be upgrading to one at home from an ISDN. I do not
> know how to open ports on my router it is a black box
> provided by BT.
> Any hlep to point me in te right directions woul dbe
> gratefully recicved.
>
> many thanks
>
> Martin

fbrown
Wed Aug 13 19:39:17 CDT 2003

Thank you for posting your question to the SBS newsgroup.

The following article should help you configure SBS to allow VPN
connectivity:

320697 HOW TO: Turn On and Configure Inbound VPN Access in Small Business
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320697

In your situation you want to verify that your router is passing TCP port
1723 and GRE (protocol 47) back to your SB Server. Also when running the
RRAS configuration wizard, choose the option to configure the server as a
RAS server and not as a VPN server -- choosing the VPN option in RRAS will
automatically create packet filters in RRAS that will block all but VPN
traffic. Use the SBS internet connection wizard to proplerly configure your
packet filters.