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Server 2003 VPN DHCP Question
If I have one DC configured to give out DHCP but my VPN comes in on a different DC. How do I tell the VPN DC where the DHCP server is?
If it is on the same subnet then you do not need to specify anything. If the dhcp server is on a different subnet then you can specify the DHCP relay agent under the IP Routing
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That's weird. That's what I thought. Their on the same subnet but when I VPN in I get on of those bogus ip addesses. I mean it still works and everything but it's not getting the IP from the DHCP server.
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When I specify it in Ip Routing. Do I use the one in NAT/Firewall?
>Do I use the one in NAT/Firewall?
Sorry I did not understand what you mean
Sorry I did not understand what you mean
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For whatever reason the VPN server is not seeing the DHCP server so I was going to try and specify it under IP routing. I assume you mean IP routing in RAS. Where in IP rounting would I specify the DHCP server?
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megs28.
Yeah that works. I had it like that before but I was unable to resolve netbios names. However, for some reason it's working now.
Thanks
Yeah that works. I had it like that before but I was unable to resolve netbios names. However, for some reason it's working now.
Thanks
Ensure netbios over tcp/ip is enabled for EVERYTHING - adapter on RRAS server, network adapter on client, VPN connection on client, etc. etc. There's always the quick and dirty way around the name resolution thing, which is a static entry in the hosts file (I'm not an advocate of this). You can create a simple logon script to add entries that are necessary.
I don't know off the top of my head the configuration for the RRAS in 2k3 as I rarely ever have to look at the config, and I'm nowhere near a server right now. Sorry.
FYI - RAS - Remote Access Server...RRAS - Routing and Remote Access. Same crap, different pile (depending on the OS).
I don't know off the top of my head the configuration for the RRAS in 2k3 as I rarely ever have to look at the config, and I'm nowhere near a server right now. Sorry.
FYI - RAS - Remote Access Server...RRAS - Routing and Remote Access. Same crap, different pile (depending on the OS).
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Thank you
I got it to work by putting the DNS suffix in TCP/IP. In other words it'll take the FQDN if each machine but not the netbios name. So by inserting the suffix in there it seems to work fine. Although I woudl like to know why at some point.
Wes
I got it to work by putting the DNS suffix in TCP/IP. In other words it'll take the FQDN if each machine but not the netbios name. So by inserting the suffix in there it seems to work fine. Although I woudl like to know why at some point.
Wes
When you make a connection from the client side check to see if netbios over tcp/ip is enabled (ipconfig /all....don't trust how the connection is configured to give you a proper response). If it isn't, this is why the FQDN works and the netbios name doesn't. With my 2k3 RRAS server, I often find this issue to be a hit or a miss.....and I could never figure out exactly why even though netbios over tcp/ip was enabled on every adapter and every connection for the bloody thing. I chalked it up to the fact that I have an NT network and 2k3 rras servers. meh.