Do I need a separate certificate for VPN on Lion Server?  I cannot get it to work.

I am a bit of a neophyte with OSX server.
I am setting up my first server and am having difficulties getting the services to work.
iCal, Mail, VPN don't seem to work.
the ports are open on the Airport Express.  I opened then using the utility program.
Authentication fails when I try to get on via VPN. 
Where should I look for help?
Bob

L2TP/IPSec requires that you have security certificates OR a shared secret, but not both.
And if you opt for a certificate, it can even be self-signed. You certainly don't need to call Verisign and get a certificate to use VPN on you Lion server. This is a huge overkill. A strong shared secret is all you need.
Visit this page, it's an ultra high security password generator. It generates them randomly every time the page is loaded. The look something like this:
nhF3yiTJv9usv1FImPSkGGSEdIaSMW5sHPGmcsPN3zhA8OXbADHtg0KrJnHN9eS
Use this as your shared secret, it's all you need.

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