Jerry Houston wrote: > I keep an XP-Pro machine at home, specifically to connect to my > workstations at the office, so I can "remote desktop" to them and work > at home from time to time. I'd _really_ like to be able to retask that > machine to a more useful (Linux) purpose. I already know that the KDE4 > rdp client works great within my own domain at home, so I investigated > the KDE client for setting up a VPN connection, KVpnc.
I was issued an windoze laptop by my employer as well, but it came with a 40 GB disk - far too much for the scant use I make of it. So I partitioned it and made it a dual boot machine: at one time it was w2k and fedora, currently it's triple boot: expee, SLED 10SP1, OS 10.3. Much as I like Opensuse, I have to admit that on the laptop SLED is just really smooth - it even makes using gnome bearable. > On the XP machine, of course, all I've ever needed to do is provide the > IP address of our VPN portal, and it's just worked. When I tried using > KVpnc, it attempts to connect, but after a short timeout, I'm told that > the modem on the other end has disconnected. I know that I'm providing > the appropriate domain name, IP address, user name and password, but > there are other possible settings, and using all the defaults hasn't > worked for me so far. I never had any luck with kvpnc, it never did anything but crash for me. However, the cisco vpn client works perfectly, so I can connect with that, as long as I have my SecureID Token with me. We use a cisco vpn concentrator, so not sure if this applies for you. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
