That wouldn't work for me. One end of my vpn my notebook. It has to run the vpn software, so that I can use it elsewhere.

Which still isn't a problem with remote administration. All you would have to do at each location is plug the thing in, see what ip gets assigned to it, login to remote administration, update the newly assigned ip, and bingo! Plus if you used a wireless accesspoint router with VPN, as long as you would have to carry around this little box anyway, you would get the added benefit of both wireless and hardware firewall.... B-)

Again, if you use 2 vpn enabled routers like the linksys broadband one with VPN, you can simply use Samba as if you computer is at work.... B-) On Wednesday 17 November 2004 03:46 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:

Sharpe, Richard wrote:

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It is Symantec running on Windows 2000 Server sp4.

-----Original Message----- From: Jerry Westrick [mailto:jerry@westrick.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:02 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] VPN client under 9.2

You need to mention what software your corporate is using, Then most probably go look on thier website...

Most VPN software is proprietary, both the CLient and the Server need to be from the same company. It might be using an open standard though, you never know...

Jerry

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:08, Sharpe, Richard wrote:

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Hi

I am trying and failing to find out how to get a VPN client running SuSE 9.2 to access my corporate Windows VPN server, can anyone

point me in the right direction or have a howto doc ? I would appreciate this quite a bit

Thanks

Rich

The only VPN client available for Linux I know is Cisco, as it's proprietary, it's only available for holders of a Cisco contract. i don't know if it's compatible with Symantec. The Symantec 4400 is Linux based, but http://nwc.linuxpipeline.com/news/17601488 mentions Windows etc. and ssh access. Perhaps it's doable, but you may be breaking new ground here. Symantec have GoToMyPC for which you have to register for a free trial, not sure if there is a Linux version. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====

Louis Richards wrote:

Sid Boyce wrote:

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The only VPN client available for Linux I know is Cisco, as it's proprietary, it's only available for holders of a Cisco contract. i don't know if it's compatible with Symantec. The Symantec 4400 is Linux based, but http://nwc.linuxpipeline.com/news/17601488 mentions Windows etc. and ssh access. Perhaps it's doable, but you may be breaking new ground here. Symantec have GoToMyPC for which you have to register for a free trial, not sure if there is a Linux version. Regards Sid.

Well ... not quite the only one. I did not like the Cisco client. I used it to connect to a clients network and it was set to disable access to the local network. This may be a nice security feature, but my home directory is exported from my server. I quickly switched over to vpnc. It allowed me to make the connection without disabling the local network.

Of course there are also PPTP clients for Linux. Both the server and client are part of SuSE 9.1. Search for vpn and pptp in Yast Package Manager

Louis

I never had any problems with the Cisco client, you can set the parameters so access to the local network is enabled, as a matter of fact, I think it was set to disable, but I still had access to the local network, perhaps it works the reverse of what it should. Unfortunately, I've since left the company when they were taken over. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====