Setting Up Windows 2000 Clients

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.