Sean, What I think you actually want is the VPN solution that used to be called FreeSWAN. The product has been discontinued, but there are now Two groups developing the product. The basic idea is that it implements IPSEC using either shared keys or X.509 certificates. The certificates can be generated by your server, and all Windows versions except W95 can setup a VPN connection. Nate Carlson and Jacco de Leeuw have tutorials http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/win2000xp-freeswan.html --Skip --- Sean Flynn <sflynn@flynnsplaza.com> wrote:

I apologize if this has already been discussed, but after some cursory googling and searching I haven't found an answer yet.

I am the "computer guy" for our heating oil company. The heating oil software is running on a SCO box, and everyone in the office connects to it over our Windows network. After hours people need to connect to the SCO box to check customer information. Currently they do it through their own windoze PCs with their own high speed internet, or through a company laptop through dial up.

Using their own high speed access makes things much quicker and we have subsidized access for some of the people. But since it is windows, their PCs are often screwed up, and I get many after hours calls saying, "I can't connect to the VPN or I can't connect to the Internet".

I have played with Knoppix and absolutely love how it can recognize hardware, and I have installed Suse on a home system to play with for myself, but I have little knowledge of Linux.

Is their a live CD like Knoppix that has microsoft VPN support, that the remote users can pop it in their system, restart, connect to the microsft VPN and open a terminal window to the SCO box?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

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poptop is a pptp server (unless they've recently added client support to it). I think he's looking for client setup. If so, check out the linux pptp client at http://pptpclient.sf.net Scott Karl Hiramoto said:

Sean, if you trying to use a PPTP based VPN, then you should check this out. with Gentoo Linux you just "emerge pptpd" and then configure which is a little non trivial, but you just have to RTFM.

http://www.poptop.org

Skip Gaede wrote:

...

Sean,

What I think you actually want is the VPN solution that used to be called FreeSWAN. The product has been discontinued, but there are now Two groups developing the product. The basic idea is that it implements IPSEC using either shared keys or X.509 certificates. The certificates can be generated by your server, and all Windows versions except W95 can setup a VPN connection. Nate Carlson and Jacco de Leeuw have tutorials

http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/win2000xp-freeswan.html

--Skip

--- Sean Flynn <sflynn@flynnsplaza.com> wrote:

...

I apologize if this has already been discussed, but after some cursory googling and searching I haven't found an answer yet.

I am the "computer guy" for our heating oil company. The heating oil software is running on a SCO box, and everyone in the office connects to it over our Windows network. After hours people need to connect to the SCO box to check customer information. Currently they do it through their own windoze PCs with their own high speed internet, or through a company laptop through dial up.

Using their own high speed access makes things much quicker and we have subsidized access for some of the people. But since it is windows, their PCs are often screwed up, and I get many after hours calls saying, "I can't connect to the VPN or I can't connect to the Internet".

I have played with Knoppix and absolutely love how it can recognize hardware, and I have installed Suse on a home system to play with for myself, but I have little knowledge of Linux.

Is their a live CD like Knoppix that has microsoft VPN support, that the remote users can pop it in their system, restart, connect to the microsft VPN and open a terminal window to the SCO box?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

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