How to Configure the VPN Server
Configure the remote access server as a
router:
1. Click
Start > point to Administrative Tools
>click routing and remote Access.
2. Right-click the server
name .click properties.
3. Click General Tab >
click to select router under enable this
computer.
4. Click LAN and demand-dial
routing > click OK to close the properties
dialog box.
How to Configure a VPN Connection
from a Client Computer
To set up a client for virtual private
network access, follow these steps on the
client workstation:
1. Confirm
that the connection to the Internet is correctly
configured on the client computer.
2. Click start > click
control panel .click network connections
> press create a new connection under
network tasks and then click next.
3. Click connects to the
network at my workplace to create the dial-up
connection. Click next to continue.
4. Click Virtual Private
Network connection >click next.
5. Type a descriptive name
for this connection in the company name
dialog box and then click next.
6. Click does not dial
the initial connection if the computer is
permanently connected to the Internet.
b Type the IP address or
the host name of the VPN server computer
8. Click anyone's use if you want
to permit any user who logs on to the workstation
to have access to this dial-up connection
> Click my use only if you want this
connection to be available only to the currently
logged-on user > press next.
9. Click Finish to save
the connection. Click start > click control
panel and then click network connections.
10. Double-click the new
connection > click properties to continue
to configure options for the connection.
Use the connection
• Click start >
point to connect to >click the new connection.
• If you do not currently have a connection
to the Internet, Windows offers to connect
to the Internet.
• When the connection
to the Internet is made, the VPN server
prompts you for your user name and password.
Type your user name and password and then
click Connect.
• To disconnect from the VPN, right-click
the connection icon, and then click Disconnect.
VPN Configuration on the server
side in Windows 2003 server
1. On Start > All
Programs > Administrative Tools >
Configure Your Server Wizard.
2. Click Next > o
add the Remote Access/VPN Server role
to your server, select that role and click
the Next button to move on to the next
screen in the wizard.
The Routing and Remote Access Wizard
component
• Click Next. > Since the goal
here is to set up a PPTP-based VPN, select
the "Virtual Private Network VPN and
NAT" selection and click next.
• VPN Connection, asks you to determine
which network adapter is used to connect
the system to the Internet. For VPN servers,
you should install and use a separate network
adapter for VPN applications.
• Your external VPN clients will need
IP addresses that are local to the VPN server
so that the clients can access the appropriate
resources.
• Click the New button on the Address
Range Assignment screen. Type in the starting
and ending IP addresses for the new range
and press OK.
• Click OK in the new address range
window; your entry appears in the address
range assignment window. Press next to continue.
Starts the user configuration
• Open active directory users and
computers or computer management and open
the properties page for a user to whom you'd
like to grant access to the VPN. Select
that user's Dial-In properties page. On
this page, under Remote Access Permissions,
select "Allow access".
In this article we described that set up
a Windows Server 2003-based PPTP virtual
private network (VPN) with this step-by-step
installation and configuration at client
side and the configuration at server side
in windows 2003 server. A windows 2003 server
user configure it by the help of this article.
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