Re: Linux support in schools universities

2009-09-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Perhaps a (messy) way around this would be to run Windows in a virtual machine and run the VPN client in there. Then use that VM as a proxy/gateway for the host machine. 2009/9/17 Daniel Sobey dns_ser...@yahoo.com: citrix does not have one vpn,citrix has many vpn's all quite different from

Re: Linux support in schools universities

2009-09-20 Thread Daniel Mons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Perhaps a (messy) way around this would be to run Windows in a virtual machine and run the VPN client in there. Then use that VM as a proxy/gateway for the host machine. I work for a big bastard corporate who, by

Re: Linux support in schools universities

2009-09-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
It depends on the type of VPN. OpenVPN, PPTP and Cisco VPNs are quite trivial to connect to, and IPSec should work too. There are some weird ones though. Citrix has a VPN device that requires a Windows client to connect to, despite the device being based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 2009/9/16

Re: Linux support in schools universities

2009-09-17 Thread Daniel Sobey
citrix does not have one vpn,citrix has many vpn's all quite different from one to another. There are a whole lot of ssl vpn's that are windows only. I have to use windows to vpn into linux boxes because of this. On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 19:58 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: It depends on the

Re: Linux support in schools universities

2009-09-15 Thread Timmy
Which UNI's do you guys go to? I'm a IT student and have yet to bother to bring my linux laptop to school. I did task my teacher today if it will work and he just told me to check their website and said i have to install VPN software... But I think Ubuntu comes with that built in so I hope I just

Re: Linux support in schools universities

2009-09-15 Thread dean
Timmy wrote: Which UNI's do you guys go to? I'm a IT student and have yet to bother to bring my linux laptop to school. I did task my teacher today if it will work and he just told me to check their website and said i have to install VPN software... But I think Ubuntu comes with that built in

Re: Linux support in schools universities

2009-09-15 Thread Lisa Milne
My only experience with Linux in school/uni was at tafe. The teachers let me install Ubuntu on a number of desktop machines in several rooms, as long as it was dual boot and I told them the password. I had better network access than the windows systems (although they did eventually manage to stop