Thanks for putting up with a grumpy old man... The good news is that I went down to a hotspot yesterday and I was able to
1) ssh into my server via public key authentication. 2) create a tunnel so I could mount volumes attached to the server on my mac at the hot spot. 3) create a tunnel so I could use vnc to view the server. 4) I had Back to My Mac turned on in the airport and could access the usb drive attached to the airport ( nothing to do with ssh). The situation is not quite as nice on the iPad. I bought iSSH, an ipad app that can deal with public key authentication and has a built in VNC. I can connect to my server with ssh and sorta use the vnc component but it is not a pleasant experience. I have been running a tail on secure.log and it is amazing how many login request have been rejected. I am glad I choose the public key authentication to protect the ssh port. ---- Now the news on VPN, I hope that someone can give me some guidance here... As I wrote earlier I had the VPN going on my mac mini (client) for about 3 weeks and then Jan 3 it would no longer connect from outside of my net. [times passes with much anxiety] Today I pulled the ethernet cable out of the router ( Airport Extreme Dual band BaseStation ) and plugged it directly into my server ie I made a direct connection from the cable modem into the server. I noted the new IP that the server got when I rebooted with the new configuration and adjusted the configuration file for the vpnd and did the same for my iPhone. I fired up the iPhone VPN and it ***connected*** without any problems. The progress of the connection in system.log came up with no problem...I was watching with a tail -f... This seems to point the finger at the AEBS. I have done hard resets of the router and rentered all of the data by hand a couple of times. I have tripled checked that I am forwarding the udp ports 500, 4500, 1701 several times. Note I *can* connect ok if I am attached to my home net so I think the base configuration is fine. It seems like one of the three ports in the router is somehow stuck shut. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Jerry _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
