On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, mark.dodge wrote:
I have one Windows 2003 server running Terminal Services set up in each of
three offices that I would like to get into from the outside world, one to
be able to do some admin stuff without having to go to each office and
another for the owner to be able to look at the cameras hooked up to each
store. I have attempted to use VPN to do this and although I can ping the IP
address I cannot log into the server. What are some things I need to look
for? I have two NICs in the server one for terminal services internal and
one for the vpn. The one office I am doing this at first has a static IP
address and I have set the router to do vpn pass-through or at least I think
I have it right. The router is a D-Link DI 808HV. I'll be honest I think I
bit off more than I can chew on this project I can set up internal LANs but
not much experience with getting them seen from outside, most of the time it
is preventing access from outside baddies. I also need later to set up a
cluster outside of the offices for fail safe and backup of all three
servers, but that is another project altogether that I am still doing
research on. I have to be able currently for the owner to log into either of
the servers and see an app that is running on them to see if and when he has
appointments and to do end of day and week and monthly reports, etc. and
then also to check on the cameras, and of course for me to add or delete
users and so forth, They all are working as Terminal Servers just fine
within each office, so at least I got that right.
Is the subnet you are on the same as the remote subnet? (I.E.
192.168.0.0/24 at your computer and the same subnet at the office?). That
can cause routing issues with certain VPN software (Other software is
smart enough to get around that.)
Also with multiple NIC's in the server you might be running into a routing
issue. Less likely if you're able to ping, but sometimes the VPN software
will respond to pings no matter what (very annoying)
Christopher Fisk
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