Help setting up a VPN

[johnnyICON]

Hey guys, my first post here, and I was wondering if you guys could help me out setting up my VPN.

I have Windows Server 2003 running on one of my other machines, and I configured it to be a VPN server by adding the "Remote Access/VPN Server" role to it using the "Manage Your Server" dialog.

My server only has one NIC, so I had to use the Custom option when setting it up using the Wizard. After that, I only added "VPN access" to the list of its services.

I setup logins to be used for VPN acccess, and I have added these logins to Remote Access Policy so that they are able to login... of course.

I am able to connect to my server using a VPN connection locally, that is using the name of my server as the IP for the VPN connection. But I cannot access it externally, i.e. trying to access the VPN using the IP of my router.

I have configured my router to forward port 1723 to my server, but when I try to connect, I get "Error 800" which means "unable to establish connection with the server."

Using

http://www.canyouseeme.org,

I tested to see whether or not the site was able to access port 1723. It wasn't able to, it said "Error: I could not see your service on 24.76.231.3 on port (1723)
Reason: Connection refused"

Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there another port I need to forward? Or anything I need to configure on my server? I know that it works because I am able to create a VPN connection locally, just externally.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[wdoellefeld]

Sounds like you need to allow the router to pass IP Protocol ID 47 (GRE - Generic Routing Encapsulation). 47 is a protocol number and not TCP port. The protocol name is GRE.


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