VPN AND DIAL UP NETWORK
There are some big organizations which requires their staffs to travel to other branch of their companies for meeting purposes or research purposes, and sometimes there are some who have field engineers that travel round the globe for some contract and would need to access the companies data base from where ever they are, that’s why the VPN and the DIAL-UP network is needed.
VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN)
Virtual Private Network can be defined as a means of communication from a remote location for easy access to organization data base.
CONFIGURING VPN VPN SERVER IN WINDOWS XP
1. From the desktop right click MY NETWORK PLACES click PROPERTIES
2. Locate and click CREATE A NEW CONNECTION
3. WELCOME TO NEW CONNECTION WIZERD will come up click on next to continue.
4. You get to NETWORK CONNECTION TYPE locate SET UP AN ADVANCE CONNECTION check the box and click next to continue.
5. You get to ADVANCE CONNECTION OPTIONS check the box ACCEPT INCOMING CONNECTION click next to continue.
6. You get to INCOMING VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK CONNECTION (VPN) CONNECTION check the box ALLOW VIRTUAL PRIVATE CONNECTIONS click on next to continues.
7. The USER PERMISSIONS page will appear, there you choose those that you want to access the VPN server from a remote location. Click on next to continue.
8. The NETWORK SOFTWARE page will appear for you to choose which network protocol you want remote users to connect through. Click next to continue.
9. The COMPLETING THE NEW NETWORK CONNECTION WIZERD page will appear, click finish to end up the setup.
To be sure that you have created a new VPN SERVER on your system, follow this step to be sure.
· Right click MY NETWORK PLACES on the desktop, click on PROPERTIES.
· Then locate INCOMING on top of the LAN you will see a diagram of A computer with modem beside it signifying the VPN SERVER.
HOW TO CONNECT TO A VPN SERVER IN WINDOWS XP.
1. Right click my NETWORK PLACES on your desktop
2. Click on properties
3. locate CREATE A NEW CONNECTION and click on it
4. A wizard will come up that will direct you on how to configure VPN click next to continue.
5. You will get to NEW CONNECTION TYPE check the box CONNECT TO THE NETWORK AT MY WORK PLACE click next to continue.
6. You will see NETWORK CONNECTION check the VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK CONNECTION and click next to continue.
7. CONNECTION NAME page will appear, type the name of your company in the space provided. E.g. your company name is ABC, you just type ABC in the space provided. Click on next to continue.
8. THE VPN SERVER SELECTION page will appear, type the IP address of the VPN server that you want to connect to and click on next to continue.
9. The COMPLETING THE NEW NETWORK CONNECTION WIZERD page will appear, click finish to end up the setup.
To be sure that you have created a new connection to the VPN SERVER on your system, follow this step to be sure.
· Right click MY NETWORK PLACES on the desktop, click on PROPERTIES.
· Locate VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK under the LAN, from there you can connect to the VPN server.
Material by: Engr BASSEY DAVID BASSEY
Interesting and very useful information about the VPN and dial up networks!! I am grateful to you for sharing all this here. Actually I am in need of best free vpn service but I am newbie to VPNs so needed all these details to get started with it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my blog @alfred03white, first you need to understand why you need a VPN and the type of VPN to be deployed. There two types of VPN connection (1) Site to site VPN and (2) Client to Site VPN. Site to site connection works best when you have multiple branches in different location and you want all branches linked together....while client to site VPN is when you are off site and you need to connect to your companies server directly from your laptop.
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