Re: PPTP VPN on Win2003 Enterprise server

Have you opened the firewall for protocol 47 (GRE - generic routing 
encapsulation)? PPTP needs that too. And remember, this is a PROTOCOL, not 
a PORT.

Dave Rypma
Manulife Financial.

[email protected] wrote on 2003-09-14 
00:36:05:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am trying to setup a dial-up PPTP VPN from a XP client to a 2003 
server.
> The VPN only has to get to the server as there is no inside LAN  - 
> therefore I am using only one NIC.
> The server is connected to the internet through a router using DSL ?
> I have opened port 1723 and mapped it to the internal IP address [& 
> port 1723] I am using for the server.
> I have followed the instructions in 2003 help and have double 
> checked the access policy, user rights, and RRAS configurations.
> 
> The error I get in the event log on the server tells me that ?The 
> user has connected and failed to authenticate on port VPN3-127. The 
> line has been disconnected.?
> The error at the client end is ?Access was denied because the user 
> name and password was not valid on the domain?
> 
> I have try changing the authentication protocols, i.e. from ms-chap 
> v2 to EAP, and made sure the changes are reflected in the server 
> settings, the access policy and the client configuration ? to no avail. 
> The server is not using Active Directory & it doesn?t seem to matter
> whether the dial-in properties of the user account are set to ?allow
> access? or ?control by access policy?.
> 
> I?m stumped?any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
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