Setting Up Secure Connection Over the Internet

You can set up secure connection over the Internet for your service profile. With secure connection, your users access private networks using local Internet Points of Presence (POPs) provided by Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

The following options are available:

• Use a Secure Connection for this service profile. Select this to set up the profile for secure connection using the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). If the user’s computer is not already set up to use Dial-Up Networking, the service profile will automatically set it up the first time it is run. A Dial-Up connection called ServiceProfileFileName Tunnel is added.

  If a user’s computer is running Microsoft Windows 95, Dial-Up Networking version 1.2 must be installed for PPTP connections to work. If your users run Windows 95, select the check box to set up the service profile to automatically upgrade their Dial-Up Networking software to version 1.2. If the user’s computer is running Windows NT, they do not need to upgrade to Dial-Up Networking 1.2.

  Note

  If you include the upgrade to Dial-Up Networking version 1.2 in your service profile, its size increases substantially. If your service requires PPTP connections, you may want to create a separate profile for your customers who run Windows NT that does not contain the Dial-Up Networking upgrade.

• Use Secure Connection for merged service profiles. Select this to use secure connection for all phone numbers from phone books you have merged from other service profiles.

Note

When you select an option, make sure the phone books are correctly set up. When you select secure connection for a service profile, make sure the profile’s phone books have been configured with phone numbers you want to use for secure connection. For profiles that do not use secure connection, make sure the profiles’ phone books have been configured with direct-dial phone numbers.

Specifying the End-point Server and How the Service Profile Handles Authentication

You can specify the end-point server and how your service profile handles user authentication.

The following options are available:

• PPTP server address. Type either the named address or a TCP/IP address for the end-point server.
  
  
• Server assigned address. Select this to automatically assign name servers.

Note

To use server-assigned addresses, end-point Windows NT servers must be configured to use the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to automatically assign remote TCP/IP client IP addresses.

• Specify DNS and WINS addresses. Select this to specify name servers.
  
  
• Primary DNS address. Type the primary Domain Name System (DNS) Internet Protocol (IP) address for the end-point server.
  
  
• Secondary DNS address. Type the secondary DNS IP address for the end-point server.
  
  
• Primary WINS address. Type the primary Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) IP address for name resolution on the end-point server’s network.
  
  
• Secondary WINS address. Type the secondary WINS IP address for name resolution on the end-point server’s network.
  
  
• Use the Sign-In user name and password for the Internet. Select this to set up your service profile to use the same user name and password for Internet sign-in and private network server sign-in using a secure connection. Once the second connection is established, the user’s computer can function as if it were directly attached to the private network.

  If this option is cleared, two sets of user names and passwords are required:

  • Internet sign-in user name and password typed by the user
    
    
  • Private network server sign-in user name, password, and realm set up on the Internet Sign-In tab

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