The Sysadmins

Today we’ll look at setting up a quick PPTP VPN from Server 2008 R2 with 1 network card.

Server Side (Server 2008 R2)

• Head to Server Manager, right click and Add Role
• Select Network Policy and Access Services
• Select Routing and Remote Access Services, next, next until complete
• Expand Roles, right click on routing and remote access and select configure
• If you select “Remote Access” give the following error “Less than two network interfaces were detected on this machine. For standard VPN server configuration at least two network interfaces need to be installed
• Select Custom Configuration to get around this, then select VPN Access
• Right click Routing and remote access and select properties
• Browse to the IPv4 tab and assign a static pool of IPs for the remote clients
• Now load up ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers) and double click the user you wish to give access
• Select the Dial-in tab and set the Network Access permission to Allow Access

Client Side (Windows 7)

• Head to Network and Sharing Center
• Select Set up a new connection or network
• Select Connect to a workplace
• Select User my internet connection (VPN)
• Enter the IP/Host of the VPN server you configured earlier, give the connection a friendly names
• Enter the username, password and domain
• Click Skip before it tries to connect (if this is a remote system it will cut you off, you can get around this by disconnecting the client from the RRAS interface)
• Click Change adapter Settings in the main Network and sharing Center
• Right click the VPN connection you just created and select properties
• Go to Networking, IPv4, Properties, Advanced and unselect Use default gateway on remote computer
• You should be ready to connect!

Networking

• Enable forwarding for TCP Port 1723 (PPTP) to your 2008 R2 Server
• The firewall must support GRE

New!

Server 2012 PPTP with 1 NIC guide now up.