Need help setting up VPN with OS X Server 2.2

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Need help setting up VPN with OS X Server 2.2

I just bought OS X Server in the hopes that it would be a simpler way to set up VPN for use with my iPhone. I've tried a couple third party VPN configuration tools before with older versions of OSX but was never able to get it working. Now I'm running 10.8.2 and Server 2.2. I've made some progress, but I'm not quite there yet.

Here's what I have set up in the VPN window:

And the user I created:

The User services show that VPN is selected:

I let the Server app configure my Airport Extreme, and it looks like it set up the port mapping:

Here are my iPhone settings

-Server is set to my iMac's public IP address assigned by my ISP

-Password is the password I gave the user account

When I turn the VPN on in the iPhone I get:

"Connecting..."

"Starting..."

"Authenticating..."

then an error:

"VPN Connection

Authentification failed."

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Sean

Posted on Dec 19, 2012 8:15 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 20, 2012 1:27 AM in response to Sean C. Carter

Hi,

1701	UDP	L2TP	-	l2f	Mac OS X Server VPN service
1723	TCP	PPTP	-	pptp	Mac OS X Server VPN service

Try L2TP 😉

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Answer 2

Dec 20, 2012 4:46 PM in response to hanefi turkoz

Hi,

I'm sorry, I actually did try L2TP but forgot to mention it. Since it is the default option I was trying that first and it showed no signs of connecting at all. I changed back to L2TP to get these screenshots:

Settings same as above, but L2TP and shared secret was entered:

When I turned VPN on in the iPhone it said "Connecting..." for about 10-15 seconds and then gave me this error:

Any toughts?

Thanks,

Sean

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