[plug] Woohoo! My first post from Kubuntu!

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 11/6/06, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:10 +0800, Gregory Orange wrote:
> > Lee Jamieson wrote:
> > > I'm not planning to use xp any longer, although I will have to dual
> > > boot for a little while, but YES!  I've got it working pretty much how
> > > I like it.
> >
> > I have WinXP installed under the free vmware server running under my
> > Ubuntu install, which nearly eliminates dual-booting (I have a dual-boot
> > to XP for the purpose of my PCMCIA 3G modem, which doesn't seem to
> > operate in Ubuntu nor in virtual WinXP). It's not even painful to setup.
> >
> > Greg.
>
> I, personally thought that installing VMware Server was a bit of a pain,
> but after that everything is really cool - except I can't seem to find a
> way to reuse an XP partition in a virtual XP machine.
>
> I need Windows because I have to work via a VPN, and there is no VPN
> client available for Linux (or at least they're not telling us the
> settings we need.  :-(   Works fine from a W2K client under Linux,
> though.
>
> --
> Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
> There are II types of people - those who can count like Romans and
> those who can't.
>
> Linux Counter user #306629
>
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If it is a Windows VPN, then it is easily done -- pptp is what you're
after, and nowadays the compression module is part of the kernel
proper so it is really easy to get going. The settings you need are in
that case username, password and domain as well as the IP address to
VPN to.

Tomasz