Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Malcom Kemp 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?

I use OpenVPN, which comes with SUSE and is also available for Windows.
 While I haven't used the Windows version, a friend of mine has at his
office and says it works fine.

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> 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.

The first time you configure it, you have to sit down and give it a bit
of thought.  Once that's done, it's simple.  The easiest way, is to use
static keys.  I generate mine with "ps aux|md5sum".