On 2/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gavin Chester</b> <<a href="mailto:sales@ecosolutions.com.au">sales@ecosolutions.com.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:08 +0900, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:<br>> On 2/16/07, Gavin Chester <<a href="mailto:sales@ecosolutions.com.au">sales@ecosolutions.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><br>-snip-<br><br>> So, my question is, do any current or recent-past ECU
<br>> students know if that will be an option for me now that I'm an<br>> exclusively linux household? Do I get a package from IT at<br>> ECU, like<br>> before, or do I use gpl vpn solutions on my system? (I don't
<br>> have any<br>> experience with vpn, ssh, etc)<br><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> If they're using M$ servers for their VPN, your solution lies in<br>
> "pptp" and it's associated GUI if you like <<br>> <a href="http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/">http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/</a>>. I've used this to get to M$ VPN<br>> servers with no trouble at all; especially since newer kernels include
<br>> by default the authentication module needed (a bit like compression<br>> modules already being there too..).<br>><br>> This would be equivalent to using the "standard" dial up VPN mechanism<br>
> in Window$ clients, which is probably what they got your '98 box<br>> doing.<br>><br>> Tomasz<br><br>Thanks, Tomasz. I'll check that out and see from ECU's IT people what<br>parameters are needed to connect to their servers.
<br><br>Gavin<br><br></blockquote></div><br>More than likely: domain name, username, password and external IP to connect to is all you'll need.<br><br>T<br>