Doing some work for a charity organisation today, and had to configure their Telstra supplied Thomson TG782T router to work with SBS 2003 R2. Found it rather confusing though as the routers definition of firewall settings refers to outbound settings only – not inbound settings. Anyway – in order to make it work, I wanted to port forward ports 25, 80, 443, 444, 1723 … [Read more...]
What port do I need open to allow VPN to SBS?
Often a common question asked is about the ports that need to be open on a firewall/router device to allow the VPN to work with SBS 2003 and SBS 2008. Each router has it’s own configuration interface and as such may have extra options that need to be changed in order for the VPN to work correctly. In order to have VPN run correctly, you need to enable it on SBS 2003 or … [Read more...]
Linksys DSL Router & log on problems to your ISP – [email protected]
If you are having difficulty logging onto internet with SBS through a Linksys DSL router, it could be your ISP's pppoe software actually combines your username and domain into a e-mail address and then uses that as the username. If you type in the wrong password, it is possible that you need to do a factory reset in order to clear the 1st username and password you entered. … [Read more...]