Happy Friday readers! Harry Brelsford here, author of the
infamous purple book! I am posting up a few pages per day of this
book until SBS 2008 ships!
Today we discuss configuring remote access from the SBS 2003
TO DO LIST (what a computing paradigm eh?)
cheers...harrybbbb
harry brelsford, ceo at smb nation, www.smbnation.com
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at the above URL
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Configure
Remote Access
Welcome back.
Time for more step-by-step.
1 &nbs
p; Click on
the Configure Remote Access link.
2 &nbs
p; Click
Next at the Welcome to the Remote Access Wizard.
3 &nbs
p; Verify
that Enable remote access is selected and VPN access is
checked as shown in Figure 4-19. Click Next. Figure 4-19
This is the
magic moment for facilitating VPN remote access.
4.
On the VPN Server Name
page, the Server name field is automatically populated with
springers1.springersltd.com (this information was extracted from
the EICW). After confirming you screen looks like Figure 4-20,
click Next.
BEST PRACTICE: So, do you always have
to VPN in via the FQDN you’re entering in Step 4 above? No!
You can also ring up the SBS server machine by simply typing in
the wild-side IP address to commence a VPN session. In the case
of SPRINGERS, this would be
207.202.238.215.
Figure 4-20
You are
defining the FQDN that allows access to the server over the
Internet.
5.
Click the
“here” link on the Completing the Remote Access
Wizard and save the configuration as VPN.htm in the My
Documents folder (similar to the steps you undertook at the end
of the EICW). Click Finish. After a few minutes the remote access
configuration process will be completed, at which time you will
click Close.
BEST
PRACTICE: Before you and I become forgetful, please select the
Done boxes on the To Do List for the Connect to the Internet and
Configure Remote Access tasks.
