Remote user logon

[PeterPanJhb]

Good day, We have just move from ISDN to ADSL. Man, this was the most pain that I have expierienced in my life. The bloke that installed the router showed me the cross-over cable and said to me that this is were Telkom responsibility stopes. I started with the installation and the software did a compatibility test on the domain controller and it said that everything was fine.
Well, installed and then the PDC was fried. I tried to uninstall the software but the damage was done.
I tried to restore, but that didnt help. I redid the 2 servers and had to add and remove 40 pc's from the network. Then I had to redo there profile's.

The software was intended only to be installed on Windows XP home and not server2k.

Now my problem is, How do you configure the firewall option on the router? There is some home user that wants to connect to the server.

Please help.
Thanks PeterPanJHB

 

[Elf]

Peter,

If your user wants to connect into the network you need to configure the PAT settings on the router. First you need to make sure that the host machine has a fixed internal IP address (like 192.168.10.100 in the following example). Then configure one entry for every port you want to let through on the PAT settings.

Here is an example for the Telkom POTS router:


Index Protocol Interface Service Port Server Server

1 TCP ATM1 HTTP 80 192.168.10.100 80

For FTP it would be port 21 etc.

 

[Vie]

If you're running Terminal Services on your server, and they're connecting that way, you'll need to open port 3389.

 

[ItalicBold]

PAT only applies if you are using the modem as a router, from what I understand you are using it as a modem, ie using telkoms pppoe client software on the cd provided. I prefer using it as a router, that way no software needs to beinstalled on any of the machines you use. Just extend your dhcp ip range to allow for the extra pcs and then set up PAT to open specific ports on each IP. If you are using the telkom software all the ports will be open on each machine that dials out, each dialed out machine will also have its own dynamic external ip.

 

[Peeved]

As for the Telkom Techies if you can call them that, they are a bunch of trained monkeys, they get shown one way to do things and that the only way they will show the Telkom Customer, same story this side, the idiot Telkom guy comes out and hands me this box and says wheres the hub while staring at it blankley right it front of him, by jingos how thick do you get, i mean.... let me stop there, im amazed at the fact that they allow half wits actually work on these things when they dont know the first thing about what they are installing...

that was my gripe, [8]

 

[wanel]

Howdy,

I run the PAT setup as instructed by a couple of posts on the site, but my problem is, I want the router to forward HTTP (port80) requests to an internal server on my network, how do I do this...

At the moment all I get when connecting to the router's external ip via http, is that authentication check for the routers config...??

Please help
Thanks
wanel []

 

[thibos]

one thing i got very clearly from the techies is that they dont support any *network issues* - thats what they are told to do....unless they'd get into trouble.

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[ItalicBold]

Wanel I sugest you read this: http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=385 and this: http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=274

Please take note that once you have set up PAT, you cannot test it while you are behind the router, you will have to get someone else to check that it is working.