I expect a new DELL DeskTop computer to get here at the lab any moment. It will come with Windows installed by defaul. I was adviced to have a dual- boot system. SInce my home computer is now networked... it should be possible to have a mount point either here at the lab or at home so as I can access the same files from here as well as from home.... hopefully The s/w administrator told me I'll have to install VPN client on my home computer and VPN server on my office computer ...???? I guess VPN is downloadable from some web site and .. how shall I install it ? Does it needs special rights ??? How does it work ? Would a CVS system be the best choice instead ??? Ideally I'd like to launch NEDIT from home to edit a file residing on the lab computer disk and lauch GVD to debug a program being run at the lab while at home and viceversa ... Is VPN giving me all these options ???? May I start installing VPN on my home computer tonight or shall I wait for having VPN server here at the lab ? Thank you to anyone who helps. Maura
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:30, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I expect a new DELL DeskTop computer to get here at the lab any moment. It will come with Windows installed by defaul. I was adviced to have a dual- boot system. SInce my home computer is now networked... it should be possible to have a mount point either here at the lab or at home so as I can access the same files from here as well as from home.... hopefully The s/w administrator told me I'll have to install VPN client on my home computer and VPN server on my office computer ...???? I guess VPN is downloadable from some web site and .. how shall I install it ? Does it needs special rights ??? How does it work ? Would a CVS system be the best choice instead ???
Ideally I'd like to launch NEDIT from home to edit a file residing on the lab computer disk and lauch GVD to debug a program being run at the lab while at home and viceversa ... Is VPN giving me all these options ????
May I start installing VPN on my home computer tonight or shall I wait for having VPN server here at the lab ?
Thank you to anyone who helps.
Maura
I would recommend you have a look at openVPN http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/ It works on both linux and Windows 2000/XP. There is a fair amount of documentation on the site detailing installation. There is a old version provided on the SuSE 8.2 disks also, although I would recommend compiling the newer version from the site. There is also FreeS/WAN but I believe it would be far more difficult to set up given the configuration you mention. This program is also on SuSE disks. http://www.freeswan.org/ There are a number of other VPN programs but the majority suffer from security issues. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
Op dinsdag 30 september 2003 05:32, schreef Graham Smith:
I would recommend you have a look at openVPN http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/
It works on both linux and Windows 2000/XP. There is a fair amount of documentation on the site detailing installation. There is a old version provided on the SuSE 8.2 disks also, although I would recommend compiling the newer version from the site.
1.4.22 has been made available in the suse people directory openvpn;1.4.2-22;i586;suse-people -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:39, Richard Bos wrote:
1.4.22 has been made available in the suse people directory openvpn;1.4.2-22;i586;suse-people
The current stable release is 1.4.3 which is OK for linux but for Windows you need the latest beta release which is currently 1.5.0 - beta 7 Also if you are mixing versions I suggest you look at the Compatibility Notes on the main site. When I last looked at the SuSE release it did not include the LZO real-time compression library, so would recommend recompiling from source if you require compression. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:54:37PM +1000, Graham Smith wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:39, Richard Bos wrote:
1.4.22 has been made available in the suse people directory openvpn;1.4.2-22;i586;suse-people
The current stable release is 1.4.3 which is OK for linux but for Windows you need the latest beta release which is currently 1.5.0 - beta 7
1.4.2 is the same as 1.4.3 on linux.
When I last looked at the SuSE release it did not include the LZO real-time compression library, so would recommend recompiling from source if you require compression.
It is now included. Peter
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