re: Confused by the remote desktop connection and VPN
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jazzman
(4133 messages posted)
You can RDP or VPN to either edition of Widows Server, however, what you need to
do is to make sure and port forward the RDP port 3389 ( can actually change that
port to anything you want) in the firewall/router to the internal IP address of the
server. If you want to use MS VPN, you will have to set up Routing and Remote Access
on the server. A better solution is to purchase an SSL_VPN hardware appliance, redirect
port 443 to the internal ip address of that appliance and you can connect to the
SSL_VPN and from there to any point on your network. Sonicwall and Watchguard both
make a decent SSL_VPN appliance that is easy to set up and maintain for up to 250
users.
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On Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 2:54 pm, Benjamin Chu wrote:
>Hello,
> I just read some articles about windows 2003 because our company wanna buy Windows
>2003.We just hope we can setup VPN and use remote desktop to connect to the server
>via VPN so that we can manage the server remotely (for example, at home etc.). It
>seems to me that we can setup VPN on a machine running the Windows server 2003 standard
>edition, also we can setup the remote desktop on this machine also. But if we want
>to use remote desktop connection to connect to the server via VPN. We need the windows
>server 2003 standard edition or Windows Small Business Server 2003? Thank you very
>much.
>
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