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I am new to this site, I don't know the best forum to post this in but I will try here. I would like to setup my Windows XP Pro computer so it can accept incoming VPN connections through the internet. I have setup Windows to do that, but no one can connect. Error 800. I have tried everything from disabling the firewall to going through every setting I could find that related to it and tried every combination.
modified on Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:08 PM
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Sounds like it's not being routed. Check that port 1723 for your public ip address is routed to your private address.
For a quick check, try "telnet <your public="" ip="" address=""> 1723" and see what comes up.
edit: telnet your.internet.ip.address 1723
CP doesn't like the brackets I used before...
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Hello and welcome, John C. Smith. If that is your real name. 
Sorry I can't help you with that one. But if you don't get a suitable answer here, you might also try in the Operating Systems / SysAdmin forum.
Best of luck!
BDF
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
-- Moliere
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You haven't mentioned whether you checked your anti-virus product settings. (And if you don't have one you might as well go sit in the corner)
Can these connectors ping your pc ?
Do a search (Google or even Yahoo) like "error 800 with windows XP vpn" you'll find LOTS of advice/suggestions.
DB
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Two words: Port Forwarding.
If you're behind a router you need to tell it where to send VPN requests to.
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You're very lucky that you have an English name, have good command of the language (even if it's not your native language) and are well spoken.
If you'd failed any of these requirements you would have been ridiculed, chastised, reprimanded and generally made to feel rather unwelcome.
Now I'll sit back and wait for the '1' votes from all the people with a guilty conscience...
Oh, and like someone else said, you'll need to open up a port on your router. Google around for keywords like "port forwarding" and you should find more information than you can shake a stick at. 
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Hi Miszou,
I gave you a preemptive 5 and my conscience is totally clear.
Miszou wrote: more information than you can shake a stick at
What kind of stick do you recommend?
BDF
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
-- Moliere
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I am having a trouble opening port 17012 on Windows 2008 Server.
I need to allow incoming traffic and I have added exception in Windows firewall for both UDP and TCP, but port remain time outed.
I have also visited Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and tried to open it, but still no luck.
I also Googled for the answer, but nothing works.
No extra firewalls no AV's except Windows Defender...
Does anyone know the solution for this?
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Hi Guys,
I need your advice, if what is the best backup software now wherein I can be able to backup all the data coming from 100 computers and stored them to my tera byte harddrive?
Thanks
hifiger2004
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Depends on your budget.
But I would have a serious look into the "Desktop and Laptop Option"[^] in Backup Exec
If you want it cheaper you probably have to play around with a group policy script.
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Hi Jorgen,
What I would like for now is just to get all the data from 100 computers harddrive and save them all into the terabyte harddrive. Because I am thikning of placing the terabyte HDD in enclosure and get all the data from each computer thru enclosure (with USB port).
But I find it very difficult to backup if I will do it that way. If there's just a backup software outthere wherein I can just click on it and backup the data from 100computers thru LAN then that's fine. It's only a one time use, because we need to transfer all our data to the other office within the short period of time thru our terabyte HDD. Thru FTP server will take us a longer time to backup everything.
I hope you can recommend some software out there, what do you think?
Thanks
hifiger2004
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Is it the same defined folder(s) on all the computers that need to be copied?
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I think, I will just let someone backup the data one by one thru the external hard drive (enclosure) terabyte in size, for now. Because this must be done the shortest possible time. And later, I will just put up a backup server, so that it won't repeat the same problem we're having on transferring data.
Thanks
hifiger2004
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Is there any way I could intercept and modify character data sent to an Epson/IBM emulating dot matric printer? I understand that the data transmitted is very simple, just ASCII characters with ESC codes for control. It is these ESC codes I wish to insert into or remove from the data sent to the printer.
At worst I suspect could somehow detect the beginning of a transmission, delay it while sending the interlopers, and then resume. Or is that really wishful thinking?
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None I know about, but it's out of my league anyway. But he[^] might know.
You can of course create a copy of the printer, setting it to print to a file instead of the device. Open and edit the file before sending it to the real printer.
Ok, the method is admittedly a bit clumsy. 
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Not at all too clumsy if the process is automated. Set the printing program to print to the file, with a FileSystemWatcher to modify and forward the file to the printer. Actually quite feasible, thank you.
How do I create such a copy of the printer?
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Goto printers and Faxes and add a printer.
Make it a "Local printer attached to this computer."
Then "Use the following port: FILE: /Print to File)"
Make sure it uses the same printer driver as the real printer and give it a fitting name.
Later on you send the modified file to the real printer using "copy (Name of file.prn) /b lpt1" or whichever port the printer is connected to.
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Hello, I have an instrument that is connected to computer via USB. I want when I plug in the device an icon to be displayed in system tray. I don't want any specific function like a menu or blinking or anything else. Just when I plug the device an icon to be displayed and when I unplug it the icon goes away how can I do this?
thanks.
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You can't do this artibtrarily. There is no setting you can change to magically pop out an icon in the tray. You'd have to write your own application to monitor the driver to see if it's loaded and then put up your own icon.
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Hi Guys,
I am using Microsoft outlook, and when I tried to right-click the Inbox folder and click on "properties" it brings up the other window - Inbox Properties.
In that window select the "Administration" tab. Here you will see that the "This folder is available to:" is disabled. Is there a way to enable this one?
Thanks
hifiger2004
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I'm trying to draft a backup strategy for a small business. They have two PC's, and two to three laptops on a workgroup network. One PC runs the accounting package, and is used by the secretary to do invoicing, quotations etc. The other PC is not used for much except printing quotations in colour, and providing ADSL access to other machines on the network. I will loosely term this one the 'server'.
I'm proposing a UPS for the two PC's and monitors, and am considering some sort of scheduled backup process, where designated directories on other machines are copied to the 'server', and the server writes a daily incremental backup to DVD at the end of each day, but that is where my knowledge (or lack) of backup schedules or systems ends.
Semicolons: The number one seller of ostomy bags world wide. - dan neely
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We found DVD writing to be difficult to automate.
Incremental backups are inconvenient when doing a full restore, because you have to go right back to the first backup and restore every one from there. If there are any failed or damaged backups, you end up with a broken chain and often can't restore to a consistent state.
What we used to do, until recently, was perform a full backup weekly onto a removable hard disk (we had two disks in USB caddies) then a daily differential backup to DVD. A differential backup backs up the files that have changed since the last full backup, so Monday's backup backs up the changes on Monday, Tuesday backs up the changes from Monday and Tuesday, and so on. (We did our full backups on Friday night spanning to Saturday morning.) Technically, this is often implemented with the Archive bit in the file system. Any time a file or folder is modified the OS sets the archive bit. The backup software clears it when doing a full or incremental backup. The backup software backs up files with the bit set when doing an incremental or differential backup.
You have to decide how long you're going to keep backups for. We used to have a two-week plan, although I think that was a bit risky - if your system fails during the second full backup, you only have one full backup available and if that's bad, you lose everything, not just the last week's work.
We recently invested in new servers and now use Backup Exec to back up to LTO-4 tape (800GB native capacity, 1.6TB compressed at 2:1), doing a full backup every night, retaining one month of tapes with one tape per month (actually every four weeks) being taken out of rotation and kept for a year. As a development house we're constantly generating more and more data.
DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991
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Not really an answer to the question. I think it's been answered well enough already.
But I always start with finding out the budget.
Consider a hypothetical backupsystem and how often you make the backup:
How much is the lost work time, lost credibility with customers, plus the time of getting the data back or system working again worth?
How much is the cost of getting the same data back, including the cost of hardware, software and work?
The equilibrium in cost tells you how often you need to backup and how much the system may cost
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In their case the costs of lost data are very low. The volume of data is low, all business is currently done on paper. The only reason quotations and invoices are captured, in Excel, is to print them. All customer records are on paper, and filing is physical filing of printed documents, not file system filing. They are slowly, an with some encouragement from their IT consultant, moving toward using an accounting system for at least invoicing. Initially that will be the only critical area of IT for the business.
Semicolons: The number one seller of ostomy bags world wide. - dan neely
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In that case I would get some USB disks to run the backups to. If you don't want to buy a backup program and like me don't like the builtin backup from microsoft, then you can make a simple scripted backup using robocopy, from the windows resource kit tools, with the /MIR parameter.
Make an extra CD/DVD every week or month or so, to store offsite for example in a bankdeposit box.
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