[Wylug-discuss] VPN acroos linux gateway from win2k server

[James Holden]

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Adrian Haigh-Hutchinson wrote:
| Well people
|
| I've been handed this nice little problem - the school's windows ISA
| Server has finally rolled over and curled up it's toes - the person who
| installed/maintained it is totally at a loss why it has done this and we
| are now putting in a linux box with squid to act as the internet gateway
| for the school.

Good move. Look also at Dans Guardian for content filtering. It's
fantastic and works very well with squid.

| The problem is that we are still using a Windows 2000 Server as the main
| network server and the admistrator wants to use VPN to connect from his
| W2k laptop remotely to fix any problems / tiker / update the MS server
etc.
|
| Will the linux / squid gateway allow such access?  and if so how, and if
| not what can I do to make it work?

Not via squid, which is just a HTTP proxy (with knobs on, but not the
right knobs for this).

You could use OpenVPN to make the remote laptop appear on the LAN. This
would be transparent to any network administration tools he might want
to use.

http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/

James


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