Setting Up Windows 2000 Clients
Client bureaucracy for MS Windows 2000 is rather simple and can be done application the
Make New Affiliation wizard, amid in the Start card beneath Settings |
Network and Dialup Connections. Bang Abutting in the “Welcome to the network
connection wizard” awning and baddest Connect to a clandestine network
through the Internet in the Affiliation blazon (see Figure 7.10).
The abutting screen,“Public Network,” asks you to baddest an ISP affiliation to
be dialed afore the VPN adit is accustomed (a NAS connection, in agreement of
Figure 7.11). If you accept a abiding affiliation to the Internet, you accept to
select Do not punch the antecedent connection.
In the afterward screen, you charge to access the IP abode of PIX firewall’s
outside interface (the interface on which PPTP access are accepted). See
Figure 7.12.
The abutting two screens ask you to baddest bounded users who can use this connection
and to access the name for this connection. After the astrologer finishes, a new
connection figure appears (see Figure 7.13).
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Figure 7.10 Ambience Up Windows 2000 VPN Clients
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Figure 7.11 Selecting a Dialup Connection
Figure 7.12 Aperture Address
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You charge to analysis some ambit afore you can use this link. If you open
the Properties awning for this connection, you’ll see that the General tab contains
information about the dialup affiliation and the PPTP gateway.The
Options and Sharing tabs are the aforementioned as dialup connections.The Networking
tab needs some tweaking. First, it is recommended that a specific VPN type
(PPTP) be called instead of the absence Automatic ambience (see Figure 7.14).
Also, it is recommended that alone the protocols that will be acclimated on this connection
are called (for example,TCP/IP).
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Figure 7.13 Network Access with One VPN Articulation Created
Figure 7.14 Selecting VPN Blazon and Tunneled Protocols
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On the Security tab, baddest Advanced and bang Settings. On the following
tab (see Figure 7.15), you charge to baddest the settings to bout the PIX VPDN
encryption and affidavit settings.
Most of the settings actuality are self-explanatory. Maximum backbone encryption here
means that the applicant will accede to use alone 128-bit encryption and will disconnect
if the PIX is configured to use alone 40-bit keys.When the PIX is configured
to use MS-CHAP authentication, you charge to analysis alone one box (as
shown) because the PIX supports alone adaptation 1 of this affidavit protocol.