Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Gaël Lams <lamsgael@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/20/05, Malcom Kemp <mkemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have a SuSE 9.3 system running a SAMBA server in a small office for a
> non-profit organization.  They want to access this server through a VPN
> from
> their Windows (XP) computers.  There are only about 6 users that would be
> utilizing this service, and probably not more than one or two concurrent
> users.  Does anyone have a suggestion for the best way to implement a VPN
> in
> such a  SuSE/XP environment?
>
> There is an article about the problems with Microsoft's implementation of
> PPTP, but it is somewhat old.  Are there still security problems with this
> in latest XP updates?  Is anyone using pptpd with Microsoft clients?  I
> have
> also looked at implementing OpenVPN, but it seems unduly complex to
> configure the client machines.



Several of our consultants have PC with WinXP SP2 and we use openvpn 2.0.
The configuration (I'm talking about the user-side) is as simple as sending
them the configuration file, the certificate, make them download the openvpn
client, and copy the configuration file and the certificates in the
installation folder.

Gaël