[olug] VPN

[Sam Flint]

pptp is easy enough to set up...


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Tim Larson <larson at towncommons.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 11/13/2012 9:41 AM, Jon Steckelberg wrote:
> >
> >> I have a question for you all.  The company I work for has windows based
> >> systems.  We contract out our IT to Midwest Technology Solutions Inc.
> >> here locally.  They do not have any Linux expertise on staff.  I
> >> personally use Linux Mint on all my computers.  Now for my question, I
> >> would like to VPN into the work network from my Linux Mint 13 laptop.
> >> What is the best way to set this up?  I know this is a complicated issue
> >> and if anyone would like to contact me directly please do.
> >>
> >
> > In my (limited) experience, this depends greatly on the VPN
> implementation
> > being used.  In theory, there are VPN standards that should be
> > interoperable.  In practice, I never could get Macs or *nixen to connect
> to
> > the Cisco VPN used by a former employer, as it wouldn't work with the
> Free
> > client implementations, and their own clients for those platforms were
> > lacking or nonexistent.
> >
> > All you can do is get all the pertinent info (IP, keys, etc.) from them
> > and try to set it up. Prepare to be flexible and do troubleshooting
> > yourself from your end, report the difficulties you see (if any), and
> > hopefully support from their side is better than just "it would work if
> you
> > did XYZ in Windows, so nyah!"  Being Windows-based does not necessarily
> > imply a MS monoculture. ☺
> >
> >
> Jon,
>  there are different types of VPN they could have set up.  Would have to
> know the existing type currently setup at your work.
>  If your employer allows, setup up a VPN server at home which your machine
> at work automatically connects to upon bootup.
>  i use tinc-vpn.org myself because it is completely opensource and in my
> yum repositories,  LinMacWin crossplatform, allows me to have multiple
> "servers' and runs as a service even with no user logged on.
>  However, you oughta go with something more standard at least until it is
> easier to use.
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