Remote Desktop not working after VPN setup

[Arkroyal]

I have just setup the VPN connection on our W2K SBS server and it works sweet. Only downside is that since then I am unable to connect to the server via Remote Desktop Web Connection and get the error:

'The client could not establish a connection to the remote computer...'

Prior to the VPN setup it worked fine. I have other servers which I can connect to successfully. My suspicion is that something in ISA Server 2000 was changed when I ran the VPN wizard.

Anyone any ideas?

 

[tony72000]

Prior to the VPN, the RDP would have connected to the server over the Internet, using an internet IP address or DNS.

Now you you connect to the server through a VPN tunnel, you will need to use the local address for the server (i.e 1921.168.16.2 or 'yourserver.yourdomain.local').

 

[Arkroyal]

Thanks for the reply, but I cannot even connect to the server internally and this is without going via the VPN connection. I have tried connecting via the IP address and server.domain-name with the same result. Could it be related to access via port 3389 (RDP) and the VPN setup in some way blocked that?

 

[tony72000]

Are you trying to connect using the Windows XP VPN client?

The windows firwall maybe blocking it... try disabling the firwall on the VPN connection only or allowing RDP.

 

[Arkroyal]

Already tried that. Does not matter if XP firewall is on or off and port 3389 is already in my exceptions list.