Step 9: Configure your remote clients
You may recall that we had to create a special security group for any user who is going to be
accessing the network over the VPN connection. Therefore, I am assuming your remote users have been
added to the necessary group and your client computers already have Internet access.
To allow a Windows XP client computer to access your private network, you must tell it to use a
VPN connection.
- To do so, open the Control Panel and select the Network and Internet Connections option.
- Select the Create A Connection to the Network At Your Workplace option.
- Windows will now ask you if you want to create a dial-up connection or a VPN connection. Select
the VPN option and click Next.
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- At this point, you will see the Company Name prompt. Here you can enter the name of your
company, the name of the server that you are connecting to, or anything else to describe the
connection.
- Click Next. You will be prompted to enter the IP address of the server that you are connecting
to. This will be the external IP address (the one connected to the Internet) of your VPN
server.
- Click Next again, followed by Finish to create your connection.
HOW TO SET UP A VPN
Home: Introduction
Step 1: Setup
requirements
Step 2: Implement
DHCP services
Step 3: Create
an enterprise certificate authority
Step 4: Install IAS
Step 5: Configure
IAS
Step 6: Create
a remote access policy
Step 7: Configure
the VPN server
Step 8: Associate
the VPN server with the DHCP server
Step 9: Configure your remote clients
Step 10: Test
the client connection
Step 11: Alternate
VPN configuration options
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brien M. Posey, MCSE, is a Microsoft MVP for his work with Windows 2000 Server,
Exchange Server and IIS. He has served as CIO for a nationwide chain of hospitals and was once in
charge of IT security for Fort Knox. For more information visit www.brienposey.com.
