VPN options

[Travis Fraser]

On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 13:37, James Drabb wrote:
> Do you know if this will work with a standard corporate firewall?  The
> MS Admins where I work block SSH but let Telnet!
> 
> Looking at the OpenVPN expample they have this simple setup:
> 
> On may:
> 	openvpn --remote june.kg --dev tun1 --ifconfig \
> 	10.4.0.1 10.4.0.2 --verb 9
> 
> On june:
> 	openvpn --remote may.kg --dev tun1 --ifconfig \
> 	10.4.0.2 10.4.0.1 --verb 9
> 
> The problem with this is that I want to have a VPN from my home network
> to my corporate desktop.  The work desktop does not have an Internet
> addressable IP/name.  My home PC has a dynamic IP although I use
> dydns.org so I can always get to it.  So how would I enter the --remote
> name/IP for my corporate desktop from home?
> 
> I guess I could use SSH on another port, though a VPN would have more
> utility and let me mount samba shares from my home FC1 desktop to my
> work FC1 desktop.
> 
> Jim Drabb

Jim,

You could look at the August 2003 issue of Linux Journal. There is  a
solution to a similar problem solved using a program called vtun.

As for tunneling SMB through SSH, it works.

Travis