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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:49:10 -0500
From:      Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com>
To:        "Timothy L. Robertson" <timothyr@timothyr.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 4.4 <--VPN--> NT Laptop
Message-ID:  <200111010348.fA13mPt40264@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBIFIGLFNBHJFLLOKKEEHFEJAA.timothyr@timothyr.com>
References:  <NEBBIFIGLFNBHJFLLOKKEEHFEJAA.timothyr@timothyr.com>

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On Tuesday 30 October 2001 02:39 am, Timothy L. Robertson wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> In my home I have a 4.4 box (scarlet) on a PPPoE DSL line which acts as a
> firewall/NAT gateway/fileserver for me.  I'd like to be able to securely
> access the files on it from my Windows NT 4.0 laptop wherever I might be. 
> I currently execute the following command, which gets me close to what I
> want (Cygwin)
>
> ssh -C2 -L 25:scarlet:25 -L 110:scarlet:110 -L 5901:scarlet:5901 -L
> 137:scarlet:137 -L 138:scarlet:138 -L 139:scarlet:139 scarlet.myhome.net
>
> This forwards all the SMB ports so I can access my samba shares, along with
> my mail, pop3, and VNC ports.  The great thing about this solution is that,
> once I have network connectivity on my laptop, I just type in the alias for
> the above command, enter my password, and I'm hooked up.  It works fairly
> well, except SMB uses some UDP packets which ssh doesn't forward, so the
> connection is unreliable.
>
> Tonight I tried setting up IPSec and racoon on the FreeBSD box, and PGPNet
> on my laptop, but without any success.  Before I get any deeper, I'd
> appreciate any suggestions if this is the best solution, and any pointers
> to relevant experiences.  My main criteria are that I want a solution that
> is secure and straightforward to configure, with an easy way to establish
> connections from different locations.
>

Using mpd from ports to set up a VPN works pretty well. I know this works in
95/98/ME and 2000, but I'm not sure about NT4.0.

-Jim Durham

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