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Hi all,
On a bit of a whim this week, I shopped in my MacBook Air and picked up a Microsoft Surface RT. I've got a gaming PC at home, but I use the portables for work...and here's my problem.For work I need to be able to connect to my companies servers via Remote Desktop Connection, through a secure VPN tunnel.
On my MacBook I was able to set up a L2TP/IPsec connection using the supplied VPN username, password, IP address and pre-shared key, from within the built in network settings. When I try the same on my surface however, I get varying results - none of which ending in me connecting to our network.
Sometimes it says a connection could not be established, sometimes it says the server rejected or disallowed the connection attempts. The last one said "the server did not reply in a timely manner". I'm positive I'm using the correct credentials as I'm copy pasting them from the same email I used when configuring the connection on my Mac. I don't believe anything is wrong on server side, as I can connect to our network from my girlfriends laptop using the Sonicwall Global VPN client.
I'm hoping someone here with a bit more experience can weigh in with some advice as to where I could be going wrong.
I'd like to say though, aside from this one issue I've found the Surface to be a great tool. Proper Outlook/Exchange support would've been appreciated, but I guess you can't have it all
.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Tobs.
On a bit of a whim this week, I shopped in my MacBook Air and picked up a Microsoft Surface RT. I've got a gaming PC at home, but I use the portables for work...and here's my problem.For work I need to be able to connect to my companies servers via Remote Desktop Connection, through a secure VPN tunnel.
On my MacBook I was able to set up a L2TP/IPsec connection using the supplied VPN username, password, IP address and pre-shared key, from within the built in network settings. When I try the same on my surface however, I get varying results - none of which ending in me connecting to our network.
Sometimes it says a connection could not be established, sometimes it says the server rejected or disallowed the connection attempts. The last one said "the server did not reply in a timely manner". I'm positive I'm using the correct credentials as I'm copy pasting them from the same email I used when configuring the connection on my Mac. I don't believe anything is wrong on server side, as I can connect to our network from my girlfriends laptop using the Sonicwall Global VPN client.
I'm hoping someone here with a bit more experience can weigh in with some advice as to where I could be going wrong.
I'd like to say though, aside from this one issue I've found the Surface to be a great tool. Proper Outlook/Exchange support would've been appreciated, but I guess you can't have it all
.Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Tobs.
.