Stupified, VPN on Win2k and Win2k3

I'm completely stupified. After trying to find out how to connect a VPN using PPTP on Windows 2000 and not finding out what was the problem, I've finnaly abandonned and replaced the RRAS connection by ICS on a VPN connection available to all user.

After having upgrading the server to W2k3, I had some time to spend (!) to make it work and found the solutions, 7h later. There are the steps as partially described in TechNet .

1. After upgrading the server to W2k3, RRAS did want to start configured as a Dial on Demand router. That is because the mdb (!) are not upgraded (!) for RRAS on W2k3, so you must copy the 2 mbd in system32\ias from the cab using the expand command. The mdb are dnary.md_ and ias.md_.

2. You use exactly the same VPN interface name and username to login to the remote server, if you want to use administrator you must have a connection named administrator!

3. The server, if Win2K must be in native mode, mixed mode doesn't work, because the dial-in user must have assigned routes to the private network of the connected dial-in connection (If you are looking at both "Assign a Static IP Address" and "Apply Static Routes" and they are grayed out, it's because you are in mixed mode)

That's all about it. Hope this will help some body else, because me, I didn't found the exact information, the first time.

-f.