SBS SP1 server gets ping response, client does not - 2.Aug.2005 8:52:00 AM
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Just upgraded to SBS 2003 SP1. First of all found that I could no longer connect my PPTP VPNs from my client PC to other sites. Rooted around in the policy and added 'Internal' to the from/listener to the "SBS PPTP outbound Access Rule" and it now works.
Now I find that I can ping (say) www.google.com from the server console but not from my PC even with FWC enabled (or disabled!)
Had a bit of a google around but can't find anything except 'enable IP routing' which is already enabled.
Set up logging to the destination IP and the result is 'denied connection' refering to the rule "SBS Internet Access Rule".
1. Don't change the System Policy for PPTP -- create an Access Rule that allows PPTP outbound from Internal to External
2. For ping to work from an Internal Network client, you need to create an Access Rule allowing Ping from Internal to External AND the client must be configured as a SecureNAT client
3. IP Routing is enabled by default
4. I'll have to check on what the "SBS Internet Access Rule" does, but the protocols allowed will appear in the Firewall policy list
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Hi Tom,
by default the "SBS Internet Access Rule" gives "All outbound access" to all users in the group Internet Access on an SBS2003 machine. The first thing I do when setting up an SBS03 box is to reconfigure this rule to only allow HTTP / HTTPS / FTP access.