windows server 2003 VPN

[canada]

I'm wanting to set up a VPN for our church office so the staff can access our domain from home. I'm running windows server 2003 and the clients are windows xp pro and vista.

- My server only has one NIC

- I don't have a dedicated VPN router, just the modem/router that our ISP provides, therefore I'm thinking along the lines of using the built-in windows vpn

- I have enabled "routing and remote access" on the server (using the custom VPN option because I only have one NIC)

- I've tried to add the VPN connection to the XP pro clients but I don't know what to enter for when the wizard asks for the "name or IP address of the vpn server" the server's name is genesis

is there more I need to do to configure the remote access on the server? I only added it, I didn't do any configuration.

when I add the connection to the client computers what do I enter when the wizard asks for the "name or IP address of the vpn server"?

[riafekim]

You will need to enter the public IP Address on your router. Inside the router you will then need to port forward VPN traffic to the server. I don't remember the ports off the top of my head though. You can easily google that. You will use the username and password for the login information.

[kerwin kanago]

Just did all this a few months ago.

Do you have "Static IP" with your ISP package? If so, you will have an address (or a very small block of addresses) to use as the IP. If not, the IP address may/probably will change over time.

[canada]

Originally Posted by Kerwin Kanago

Do you have "Static IP"

Yes I have a static IP.