How to set up VPN network connections under Windows 2008

Many mobile office people often travel outside, in this case, if you need to frequently access the important content in the local area network, how to do? Perhaps some people will not hesitate to say that through the remote dial-up Access connection can easily achieve the purpose of arbitrary access to the unit LAN; However, traditional remote dial-up access operations, whether in terms of security or economic aspects are not effectively guaranteed, but also more cumbersome to operate. In view of this, the VPN network connection came into being; Through a VPN network connection, any user on an Internet network can access the contents of an important server or host as if it were directly located on a unit LAN, and the access connection process is more secure and more economical. To help your friends efficiently use VPN network connections, this article now takes a Windows Server 2008 system environment as the operating blueprint to give you a detailed overview of the VPN network connection settings for the Windows Server 2008 system!

To create a VPN network connection

Although the VPN network connection creation is relatively simple, because the Windows Server 2008 system is a completely new operating system, the steps to create a VPN network connection in this system environment are somewhat different from the previous one, and now this article makes Windows Server The VPN network connection creation step of 2008 system is presented step by step:

First login to the Windows Server 2008 system with Super Administrator privileges, open the Start menu in the System desktop, click Settings/Control Panel in turn, and double-click the Network and Sharing Center icon option in the System Control Panel window that appears later. Open the network and Shared Center Management window of the corresponding system;

Second, on the left display area of the network and Sharing Center Management window, click the "Set Connection or network" feature option, open the VPN Network Connection Creation Wizard dialog box, and follow the wizard prompts to select the Connect to Workspace option in the interface shown in Figure 1, and click the Next button;

Figure 1

Below, the Network Connection Creation Wizard dialog box asks us how to connect to the workspace, and we can select the use my Internet connection (VPN) feature option in the wizard Setup interface shown in Figure 2, so that we can use the existing Internet network connection line, To establish a virtual encrypted channel for direct access to the Unit LAN network;

Figure 2