From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 19:48:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CAC237B401 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 19:48:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (xolaptop [192.168.5.9]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.3) with SMTP id fA13mPt40264; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:48:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from durham@jcdurham.com) Message-Id: <200111010348.fA13mPt40264@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Durham To: "Timothy L. Robertson" , Subject: Re: 4.4 <--VPN--> NT Laptop Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:49:10 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message