Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
> benny wrote:
>> I can create a vpn pptp connection to my remote network. I can look 
>> at remote machines by ip adress example \\192.168.1.7
>> But I can't connect to a msde (sql) server. My database won't 
>> connect. Anybody knows how to configure the vpn pptp to connect to odbc?
>>   
> It has nothing to do with it. Possibilities include that the machine 
> hosting the MSDE has Windows Firewall configured to only allow 
> connections from within it's own subnet. If your MSDE server has, for 
> example, an address like 192.168.1.7, and your pptp connection is 
> configured to be 192.168.2.x, then you have to change the firewall 
> setting on your MSDE box to allow connections from that network as 
> well, or go crazy and set it to allow connections from, say, 
> 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 (which means anybody on 192.168.x.y, which is 
> somewhat insecure but probably safe enough for your particular 
> installation).
You also need to confirm that you can in fact connect from a machine on 
the same local network as the database.  The default installation of 
MSDE as of SP3 was to disable all network protocols and only allow 
connections from the local machine, a rather inconvenient choice for 
some uses, and one which has bitten several folks.