The problem is as follows:

I have 2 windows2003 server instances running on the cloud.

1) How can I create a local area network from these 2 instances?

2) Assuming that I want to create a VPN network from these 2 instances, how do I do that?

(I'm not very good in networking, therefor the above problem description might be incomplete or not very clear.)

A detailed answer or clarification would be praised and appreciated!

What I tried:

1) Setting up OpenVPN, but I got lost in the process. 2) Creating a VPN from windows2003 server in the following manner: on instance a): set up a dhcp server; set up an "accept income vpn" connection; with the followin tcp ip settings: obtain an ip from the dhcp server;

on instance b): created a new vpn connection, tried to connect to intance A, using the instance A static IP but error 806 was thrown, something relate to a GRE protocol.