Connecting to a Windows 2003 VPN server
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to connect my MacBook Pro with 10.5.2 to our company's Windows 2003 Small Business Server using VPN. Windows-based computers (or even Windows running in Parallels on my iMac) have no problem connecting to our company intranet using basic settings. All I need to do is set up a basic PPTP connection and provide the company's public IP and my user/pass combination. Even my iPhone can connect via VPN.
However, I am unable to setup ANY Mac OS X computer (be it Tiger or Leopard) to successfully connect to our intranet with any combination of settings. After I press 'Connect' in System Preferences, the connection is made almost instantaneously, and I get an IP-address from the remote server. The router address is always 192.168.1.180, although that address doesn't exist when trying to ping it from inside the network at the office. The DNS server is, however, provided automatically and correctly (192.168.1.5, which is the internal IP of the SBS2003 Server).
The problem is, I cannot ping or connect to anything on the remote intranet. Only when I ping 192.168.1.180, the router address, I get a response from the Small Business Server (which should be 192.168.1.5). However, pinging other known IP-addresses or local hostnames give a 'no route to host' error in the Terminal.
I've already tried setting the PPP options to manual, adding a subnet mask, adding our .local domain to the Search Domains, all to no result. The connection is made, but I can only reach the Small Business Server and none of the workstations or other servers. I've tried it with over a dozen different Mac's.
I'm sure that I'm missing something in the Mac's configuration, because every Windows PC can connect and browse the entire intranet almost immediatly, and my iPhone can also successfully use the VPN to connect to our Exchange-server.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this? I'm the IT manager so I have access to all SBS settings. The VPN requires no exotic settings, certicates, protocols or special ports, everything is basic.
Thank you in advance,
Jim Morris
I'm trying to connect my MacBook Pro with 10.5.2 to our company's Windows 2003 Small Business Server using VPN. Windows-based computers (or even Windows running in Parallels on my iMac) have no problem connecting to our company intranet using basic settings. All I need to do is set up a basic PPTP connection and provide the company's public IP and my user/pass combination. Even my iPhone can connect via VPN.
However, I am unable to setup ANY Mac OS X computer (be it Tiger or Leopard) to successfully connect to our intranet with any combination of settings. After I press 'Connect' in System Preferences, the connection is made almost instantaneously, and I get an IP-address from the remote server. The router address is always 192.168.1.180, although that address doesn't exist when trying to ping it from inside the network at the office. The DNS server is, however, provided automatically and correctly (192.168.1.5, which is the internal IP of the SBS2003 Server).
The problem is, I cannot ping or connect to anything on the remote intranet. Only when I ping 192.168.1.180, the router address, I get a response from the Small Business Server (which should be 192.168.1.5). However, pinging other known IP-addresses or local hostnames give a 'no route to host' error in the Terminal.
I've already tried setting the PPP options to manual, adding a subnet mask, adding our .local domain to the Search Domains, all to no result. The connection is made, but I can only reach the Small Business Server and none of the workstations or other servers. I've tried it with over a dozen different Mac's.
I'm sure that I'm missing something in the Mac's configuration, because every Windows PC can connect and browse the entire intranet almost immediatly, and my iPhone can also successfully use the VPN to connect to our Exchange-server.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this? I'm the IT manager so I have access to all SBS settings. The VPN requires no exotic settings, certicates, protocols or special ports, everything is basic.
Thank you in advance,
Jim Morris
MacBook Pro 2.33Ghz C2D, Mac OS X (10.5.2)