RRAS is an acronym for Routing and Remote Access Service, which is a Microsoft API and software which allows administration of routing and remote access capabilities of the operating system.
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Accessing windows 2003 firewall settings with RRAS enabled
Windows Server 2003 (VPS)
Trying to install MySQL, but the service isn't starting - suspect the port is being blocked by the firewall.
One of my Google searches lead me to http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1117967&page=1 which seems to…

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VPN Connection Causes Internal LAN Connection Loss with Server
I've tried configuring basic PPTP VPN at my small business using a number of different tutorials. As far as I can tell, the actual VPN connection worked fine, but upon connecting a client, the Server 'disappears' from the internal LAN. The RRAS…

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website not accessible with IIS6 while NAT is configured in Windows 2003
I have Windows2003 server configured with IIS 6. Until now it was working fine, but since I enabled NAT for my users to access the internet via this server, the website becomes unavailable. Note that I have two nics on the server one is WAN and 2nd…

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How can I recover rrd's when my clock got out of sync?
I'm using cacti, and I accidentally set my clock set ahead. Cacti updated, storing new data in the rra's - and now that I've fixed my clock, I can't get cacti to update again. What do I do?

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Changing Forefront TMG VPN Certificate
I need to change my TMG server from an old VPN server certificate to a new one due to changing my internal CA structure.
Where the heck do I do that? I don't see any certificate references in TMG nor in the RRAS MMC.
The references I've found on…

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Route Server 08 R2 VPN (PPTP) traffic to two subnets (public & private)
I recently transitioned our VPN server from a Windows Server '03 box to '08 R2, both using built-in Routing and Remote Access for PPTP connections. Our firewall has a rule that forwards traffic from a public IP address (which the clients connect to)…

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VPN client has severe intermittent connectivity issue with Windows 2008 RRAS server, but NOT with the other remote servers
I have a Windows 2008 server setup in the cloud as a RRAS running VPN access and NAT. It is joined to a domain controller also running in the cloud. A Windows 7 VPN client connects using SSTP to the RRAS server and everything works except for…

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Starting RRAS service blocks RDP access to RRAS server on internal interface? (2008 R2)
Has anyone else seen this behavior?
I have a VPN server (Win2008 R2) with two network interfaces; RRAS is configured on the 'external' interface, and I am RDP'ed into the 'internal' interface. As soon as I start the RRAS service, connectivity to…

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Using RRAS to bridge two networks
I have the following setup:
Server A has two NIC's - one connected to each switch. Server B just has a NIC connected to the internal switch.
Server A and Server B can both ping each other. But when I open a web browser on Server B to access the…

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RRAS on Win2k8 has bound to additional IP address 443 - how to stop?
I have Apache 2.2 running Subversion on my Win2k8 box. This has been setup for a few years like this.
The server has 1x NIC, with 2x IP addresses assigned, eg:
192.168.1.50
192.168.1.51
The 192.168.1.50 address is the primary NIC address. The…

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Routing a PPTP client and VMware Server instance running on the same box
I have a Windows 2003 SBS box. It has 2 physical NIC's: WAN and LAN. The WAN is a public IP. The LAN is a simple 192.168.2.x subnet with Microsoft DHCP Server. Microsoft Routing and Remote Access Service is used to provide NAT to LAN. The box also…

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VPN troubleshooting
I have a user that is having trouble VPN to the office. What are you top troubleshooting things to try to find out where the problem is.
The error the user is getting is Error 806 - a connection between your computer and the VPN server has been…

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Assistance on setup to Connect an offsite server to the LAN via RRAS VPN - Server 2008 R2
I have an office LAN protected using a Zyxel Zywall USG 300. I've set up an L2TP/ipsec VPN on that which accepts connections using a shared secret and I've tested this from multiple clients.
I have a server offsite and want to set up RRAS to use a…

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When connected to Windows VPN and I do an nslookup it shows the DNS server's IP but name is unknown
When I connect to my RRAS VPN I am having an issue where the VPN clients can ping/connect to servers by IP and their FQDN but not by their basic hostname.
When I did an nslookup on a VPN client it will show the proper DNS IP but the name of the…

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Hyper-V + RRAS NAT + Port Forwarding + RDP, can I get it all working together?
I am running a Windows 2008 R2 server with various services running natively and two virtualised servers running on Hyper-V.
The hardware server, I'm going to call it REAL1, has one external NIC, to which I can assign any of the following IP…
Tom Bull