2k Sever Connect Failure

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I have a small problem connecting to a server over a VPN and I a
soliciting any advice possible.

I have two networks, one at the office and one at home. The idea is t
have a 2k Server at the office and a second back-up 2K Server at hom
connected by a VPN tunnel. The ip subnet for the office i
10.10.0.x/255.255.255.0 and the ip subnet for the home network i
10.10.10.x/255.255.255.0. I am connecting the networks with tw
netgear FVS318 routers. I have enabled the Netbios info to flo
through the VPN tunnel. The VPN works to some extent.

I have a laptop at home (10.10.10.2) and there are about five computer
at the office. The two servers I am concerned are both running Window
2K Server. One server is addressed at 10.10.0.5 and the one i
addressed at 10.10.0.2. The 10.10.0.5 address was assigned by th
Netgear Router and and the 10.10.0.2 address was assigned as a stati
address. The 10.10.0.2 server is our main server and once I get thing
straighten out the 10.10.0.5 will be moved home. I can ping th
10.10.0.5, ftp and access its web server. While the 10.10.0.2 serve
appears in the network neighborhood, when I try to access it, I recev
an error message "The network path was not found."

I suspect that it is either a routing issue, since the 10.10.0.
address static and not assigned by the router or there is some securit
policy which would bar access through the VPN.

Any advice would be appreaciated. Thanks. Pat C


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this step by step troubleshooting browsing over vpn may help. http://www.howtonetworking.com/VPN/browsingovervpn0.htm

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I have a small problem connecting to a server over a VPN and I am
soliciting any advice possible.

I have two networks, one at the office and one at home. The idea is to
have a 2k Server at the office and a second back-up 2K Server at home
connected by a VPN tunnel. The ip subnet for the office is
10.10.0.x/255.255.255.0 and the ip subnet for the home network is
10.10.10.x/255.255.255.0. I am connecting the networks with two
netgear FVS318 routers. I have enabled the Netbios info to flow
through the VPN tunnel. The VPN works to some extent.

I have a laptop at home (10.10.10.2) and there are about five computers
at the office. The two servers I am concerned are both running Windows
2K Server. One server is addressed at 10.10.0.5 and the one is
addressed at 10.10.0.2. The 10.10.0.5 address was assigned by the
Netgear Router and and the 10.10.0.2 address was assigned as a static
address. The 10.10.0.2 server is our main server and once I get things
straighten out the 10.10.0.5 will be moved home. I can ping the
10.10.0.5, ftp and access its web server. While the 10.10.0.2 server
appears in the network neighborhood, when I try to access it, I receve
an error message "The network path was not found."

I suspect that it is either a routing issue, since the 10.10.0.2
address static and not assigned by the router or there is some security
policy which would bar access through the VPN.

Any advice would be appreaciated. Thanks. Pat C.
 
Assign a static IP Address to the Home server on a different subnet to the
main one.
So at work IP is 10.10.0.5 and at home 10.10.10.2 so all the home PC's are
the same subnet as the Server. You can assign DHCP to the home server to
make that simple, and let the router just route.
The DNS Primary settings for the NIC must be 10.10.0.5 and the Secondary
10.0.10.2 on BOTH Servers. You must then go through the DNS setup in Server,
(and research this fully so you understand it) so that each machine knows
about each other, and which device (the routers) to send non LAN traffic to
(known as Forwarders). You can also add the DNS of the ISP in there as well.

Both Servers must belong to the same domain, one is the top dog, the other
at home a child domain in the same forest. This will get you the same logins
and AD as the main server. You can then start replication, so that data on
one is the same as the data on the other machine.

If you have VPN's working on your routers correctly, you can ping either
server from either end. No need to setup a VPN from Server to Server since
the routers perform all the authentication you need.
 
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