This email is meant to describe how to setup the VPN capabilities of Kaboodle. If these instructions down't work for you....lemme know! I may have missed something.
To experience the VPN capability, startup Kaboodle on two machines that are connecting to the Internet via two different ISPs, then follow these steps: 1. After Kaboodle is installed, open the VPN Service icon's Property Panel by double-clicking on it. The VPN Service icon is the top row, in the "My Services" group. Click on the Tab that says "Remote Networks" and click the button in that window thats says "Create New Partnership". This should activate your default web-browser, and point it to the GetEngaged website at www.GetEngaged.net. 2. First, you need to register. Pick a username and a password, and try not to forget them (it's very difficult for me to reset them if you forget it). 3. After you register, in the left-hand-side banner, click on "download registration file". Save this tiny little file to somewhere safe, and then double click on it. This will register your Kaboodle for VPN'ing. 4. After the registration is complete, go back to the GetEngaged website and log on using the account/password you made for yourself in step #2. In the left hand side, click on the "create new partnership" link. Enter the email address that your partner used in their step #2. Likewise, your partner connects and enters your info. 5. When the server validates that you've both connected and both entered the same (optional) common password, you'll see their name in a list with a "download partnership file" link next to their name. Click on that link. 6. Just like with the registration file, this will download a small Partnership file to your PC. Once it's downloaded, double-click on it to install the partnership. 7. Quit Kaboodle and restart it (this is a bug, we're working on it...) 8. You're now ready to initiate a VPN. In Kaboodle, double-click on the VPN icon again in the "My Services" group. The top part of the first panel should confirm your registration status and show that you're connected OK with the partner discovery service. Go to the "Remote Network" panel. The list there should now show the partnership you installed in step 6. In the list, select the partner you want to connect with and hit Connect. 9. This VPN uses TCP ports 1782 and 4182, in case one or both of the partners are behind a firewall. That should do it! Right now, in version 0.90, you cannot tunnel data across the VPN connection. We're working on that, though, for version 1.0. In that one, you'll be able to (say) VNC to a remote PC while "inside" of Kaboodle, and it will automatically use the secure Kaboodle VPN connection to tunnel the VNC data. Or file-transfer. Or whatever else Kaboodle will be able to do. As always, more info here: http://kaboodle.sf.net http://www.kaboodle.org Hope it proves useful! -Scott ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Kaboodle-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kaboodle-user To UNSUBSCRIBE, click on the above link.