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raulica · Joined: 30 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

Hi everyone,

I have an intranet with 3 windows XP work stations, a windows 2008 server, an intranet router and an adsl router.

This is how my intranet works:
The windows 2008 server acts like a file server and all the 3 workstations connect simultaneously to it. All 4 machines connect using the intranet router using the subnet 192.168.0
The windows 2008 server has an additional NIC to connect to the adsl router using the subnet 192.168.1

Strange behavior:
The first NIC used to connect to the intranet ( 192.168.1 subnet ) has an static assigned ip address: 192.168.1.1
The second NIC used to connect to the internet through the adsl server ( 192.168.0 subnet ) has an IP address dynamically assigned by the adsl router using DHCP.
All works great, the server can serve its files to the workstations and it can connect successfully to the internet, but when I assign an static IP to the second nic which connects to the internet ( 192.168.0 subnet ) the internet stops working, and I know its nothing wrong with the router because I tested this behavior using a windows XP machine.

What I want to do:
The 3 workstations don't have internet access and I want to leave it that way except for authorized people, so I figured using VPN to dial-in to the 2008 server is the best solution for me, however I can't configure the 2008 server to act as a VPN server aswell. The role installs ok, but I can't assign ip addresses on 192.168.0 subnet using PPTP to the workstation, or if the server assigns a correct ip address the client isn't able to connect to the internet.
Also, I would like to offer the option for the authorized people I talked earlier to connect to the intranet from outside using the VPN service which I am not able to install ( fowarding VPN traffic from the adsl router is easy, so no problem on this side )

I had previously a win2k3 server doing the exact thing I talked above, but it seems following the same steps on 2k8 doesn't work as expected.

I have an windows server 2008 enterprise license so I can do everything I want, just tell me please if you have an ideea.

Thanks in advance,
Raul

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