Connecting a MAC to SBS2003 VPN

[Imran Aziz]

Hello All,
We have no of MAC laptops that need to connect to the VPN, although 2 of
them get connected to the VPN perfectly fine, one of it gets connected but
then cannot connect to any other IP on the intranet. The SBS2003 server is
on IP address 192.168.0.5 but when the clients connect they get an IP
address from the DHCP list assigned to them as the default gateway (Way is
that ? why is 192.168.0.5 not assigned as the default gateway address, since
its the VPN server).

VPN works great for all windows clients, the issue is only with MAC clients,
one client to be specific.

Any pointers as to how to get this sorted ?



Imran.

 

[Bill Grant]

If you look at the ones which work you will see that they also get the
"received" IP address as their default gateway. The default gateway for a
VPN client is the VPN connection itself. This is effectively the same thing
as the VPN server, because the VPN is a point-to-point connection. For more
details see KB 254231 .

 

[Imran Aziz]

thanks for the response. I understand that part now.

But somehow on some MAC machines in the VPN connection setup, the connection
stays in the negotiating phase and never gets connected, what can be the
reason, and how do I sort this issue out ?

Imran.

 

[Bill Grant]

Sorry, I can't help you with that. I have never used a Mac as a VPN
client.