Maybe nobody else here has been able to both figure out the how to's and get
it to work? That wouldn't be too surprising on a Newbie list.
FWIW, I have successfully setup VPN on NT Servers, and clients on Win/95,
Win/98 (1 machine unsuccessful, even reloaded - I refuse to pay M$ $245 to
help, screw that machine), and Win/2000. With Linux, I tried to read the
VPN how to and mini how to a week ago, figuring to use it to connect to a
site I was having problems connecting to with a Win/98 machine, and after a
few hours of reading, decided I didn't have the time to get Linux VPN
capability as complex as it looked. Maybe its just that the M$ stuff is
simplistic or something, options wise, but it was nowhere near as daunting
to figure out how to set it up.
If anyone actually gets a Linux VPN client to connect and work on an NT
Server, please post what software versions are running and what options are
set to on the server and client so as to provide a trail of crumbs for those
of us unable to sort it all out and make sense of it.
It makes me feel better that it wasn't just me. Sorry I had no solution to
offer...
BobC
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 2:53 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] VPN Client software
I've been beating my head against this one for a while. No one here has
responded to my VPN questions.
My problem is that I have to connect to a VPN server running W2K.
Consequently, it's my impression that I have to do PPTP because that's how
MS VPN server operates.
Check out:
www.freeswan.org
http://neurosis.hungry.com/~ben/software/pptp.html
and of course the VPN HOW-TOs....
If you can, let me know if you get this working...
-----Original Message-----
From: Wignall, Mark T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 1:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] VPN Client software
Greets Penguin-Pals!
Looking for something similar to NT2000's built in feature to VPN to our
corporate network. Commercia/Share/Freeware are all fine. I'm NOT looking
to do ssh/PPTP if I don't have to. I also, don't want to run linux
masquerading if I don't have to as both my machines at home NT and Linux,
each have their own static IP's, so don't see the need.
Can any of you guru's out there help me out?
TIA,
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Mark T. Wignall
MES Database Administrator
Xerox Corporation
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