I am trying to configure Cisco PIX to accept vpdn connections that will be authenticated by the Cisco ACS after looking up username and profile details in Active Directory. I am seeing failed attempts on the ACS – so I think the config is ok (below) access-list acl_in permit ip 10.xxx.xxx.0 255.255.255.0 10.xxx.xxx.0 255.255.255.0 access-list [...]
I am designing a new network that has a DMZ containing Linux webservers and behind a firewall separating the DMZ a Windows backoffice . I want to run our company Intranet on the DMZ side using Linux but I want to limit access to employees both from the Internet and behind the firewall using windows [...]
Hi All, I manage a small SBS2003 network, which doesn’t have ISA server – i.e. the SBS box and all clients are wired via a switch to the ADSL router (Netgear DG384G). One of the users has been downloading MP3′s from a P2P network and I want to block this sort of activity. Can I [...]
I need your help in this scenerio! what are your 2 cents? Goal: To go to a FULL Citrix Enviroment, Aiming at Thin clients, maybe linux based Off-site: Offices connect through the internet, they have DSL/T1′s. Right now they are using Citrix successfully. If they have a printer over there and they are not in [...]
Hello, I set up a VPN on the office server and I am not allowing split tunneling. Now I am trying to set up a laptop to access the VPN, the Outlook Exchange serve, internet and email. Igot the laptop connecting to the VPN and set it up to use the proxy on the server [...]
My question has two parts, first: today at the place where i work we lost the internet, and after checking the firewall (sonicwall, this is a non profit organization so they cant afford the best stuff) i discovered it was more than likely a DOS attack. nobody could access the internet, and i could not [...]
Hello, At my office I am noticing that a particular website which I used to be able to login to has done some upgrades and I no longer can access it. I have tried multiple browsers but I think the problem is in the ISA firewall on the server. The site starts as a http://blahblah:8088/blah [...]
I have a small WORKGROUP with windows 2000 server and 5 windows XP professional systems. All computers can read/write each other. Now I want to make one XP client secure/restric access, so that no other computer can access that except only other XP computer. How can I do that? Please advise. Thanks in advance!
i’m try to create a vpn from the internet to my “small buisness server 2003″ that act as vpn server without any luck, if i try to connect to my server from the internal network it’s work just fine, iv’e mapped the correct ports according to the microsoft article that say to forward port 1723 [...]
My client has a small wireless network without a domain and primarily use Windows 2000 on their workstations. Recently, they purchased a couple of Sony laptops with Windows XP Home and I was able to connect these laptops to each other and the Windows 2000 PC. They recently added a Dell Dimension desktop with XP [...]
We are moving DNS services outside and I would like to learn more about how to set this up. We currently have AD Integrated DNS server, Primary DNS server, and Secondary DNS servers set up in our AD domain. We have 2 Domain Controllers, one on Windows 2003 w/Exchange 2003 w/GC, and one Windows 2000 [...]
Good day, 1.In our organisation, we are using windows2000 smallbusiness server with EXCHANGE , ISA server and DNS configured. but all the client pc’s are given static ip address instead of dynamic ip. will this create any problem ? daily i’m receiving many application error logs.particularly 2 type of source error is repeating continuosly. (a).MICROSOFT [...]
1) How can an application detect that a Desktop or Personal Firewall is blocking a port or binary image? 2) Also, how can application get vendor specific information about the running firewall? Thanks for you help
Hello, I am just wondering if anyone knows of some software avialable for IT departments, that say is accessable to users through a company intranet site where a user can go in and log an issue or problem with thier system which goes into a database, then once the issue is resolved the user can [...]
The following question was submitted by a user: I’m just testing Windows XP with the new Service Pack 2 on our Net, which consits of a Windows 2000/2003 Domain. When I do the login just after booting the PC, I run into Netlogon error 5719. When I wait for a minute after the login screens [...]
The following question was sent to SearchWindowsSecurity.com by a user: I use Windows XP. I’ve downloaded SP2, I run Norton 2005 Internet Security Anti-Virus and I also run Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware Pro. The new Windows firewall has given me small headaches, such as erasing my exlude list if I turn the firewall off and on, and [...]
Hi, I have a network, where I want to use WOL from a remote PC. It works when I send a packet from inside the network (or on the server). If I connect via PPTP from a remote windows XP PC, I can?t wake up the PC on the LAN. I suspect the broadcast packet [...]
There is some discussion here of putting e-mail files on our email relay server which is outside the company firewall. People currently access via a dialup VPN but would like to not carry a laptop around all the time. Some people question the security of this. Have you any suggestions or can you be of [...]
In the near future, we may be opening up some of our web services to external customers. I looking for any suggestions or tips on how to evaluate our current firewall & security setup for the gaps we need to fill. What are some of the things to consider? What are some of the more [...]
I’m trying to install a VPN using a super stack 3 3Com firewall, but until now i can’t get connection between a server windows 2003 an a client windows XP. It looks like the conection validation is stablished but then there’s not data traffic at all. Any ideas about the rigth hardware configuration. thanks in [...]





