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serverlearner2019
My previous home file server with VPN was built on Amahi/Fedora/Linux but it was unstable and kept crashing. I'm attempting to build the same setup in Windows Server 2016 but I'm running into some issues on the VPN setup and port forwarding. Under my old setup I only had to forward UDP port 1194 but I've read that windows requires two NICs and multiple ports. I'm currently using a comcast gateway and I opened TCP port 1723, UDP Port 47, and HTTP port 443. In the router/gateway settings I set a static IP for the Internet NIC (INIC) installed on my server and then DHCP for all other connected devices including the LAN NIC (LNIC). I did not want my server to manage DHCP because i'm not sure if I want to continue using windows server yet and I don't want to lose network connectivity for other devices if I take this server down.
INIC - Static IPv4 address assigned in router configuration, connected to Ethernet1 on router. In windows server the IP4 properties are set to pull DHCP dynamically from the router.
LNIC - DHCP IPv4 address assigned in router configuration, connected to Ethernet2 on router. In windows server the IP is set to 20.20.20.1 with subnet 255.255.255.240. DNS is set to 20.20.20.1.
This is also confirmed on both the Local Server properties and All Servers properties where IPv4 shows "[static server ip],20.20.20.1"
Ive installed IIS and Remote Access roles and features and allowed remote access for two test users. Under Routing and Remote Access I have a static IPv4 address pool from 20.20.20.1 to 20.20.20.10.
Everything is green under Remote Access Management Console.
When I connect to the server on a client machine while on the same network it shows fine and the users can access their network shares without any issues. So then I connected the client machine to a different network, setup the VPN network connection, and entered the static IP that I assigned to the server in the router and then the test user credentials. However, it does not connect and I receive Error 800. Can you guys provide some insight on what I may be doing wrong?
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INIC - Static IPv4 address assigned in router configuration, connected to Ethernet1 on router. In windows server the IP4 properties are set to pull DHCP dynamically from the router.
LNIC - DHCP IPv4 address assigned in router configuration, connected to Ethernet2 on router. In windows server the IP is set to 20.20.20.1 with subnet 255.255.255.240. DNS is set to 20.20.20.1.
This is also confirmed on both the Local Server properties and All Servers properties where IPv4 shows "[static server ip],20.20.20.1"
Ive installed IIS and Remote Access roles and features and allowed remote access for two test users. Under Routing and Remote Access I have a static IPv4 address pool from 20.20.20.1 to 20.20.20.10.
Everything is green under Remote Access Management Console.
When I connect to the server on a client machine while on the same network it shows fine and the users can access their network shares without any issues. So then I connected the client machine to a different network, setup the VPN network connection, and entered the static IP that I assigned to the server in the router and then the test user credentials. However, it does not connect and I receive Error 800. Can you guys provide some insight on what I may be doing wrong?
Thanks
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