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| DATE | Feb 6, 2007 |
| TICKET | #333141 |
| STATUS | Closed |
| SUBJECT | VPN for a standard Mac OS? |
| CAT | Home/Business Network and/or Internet Connection |
| TYPE | Security, Firewall, VPN |
| DESC | |
| DESC | |
| PLATFORM | Apple Macintosh (PowerPC G3,G4,G5) |
| MODEL | Dual Mirror |
| PROC | 1 Ghz |
| RAM | 1024 mb |
| DRIVE | 500 Gb |
| NAME | Marc |
| USERNAME | grindstone |
| TECHNICAL | Lots of Experience |
| ISSUE | Stumped |
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TICKET ARCHIVE -> VPN for a standard Mac OS?
grindstone - Feb 6, 2007 - 9:37 am
I have tired ftp - but it is just too slow so - I have a need to put a VPN on a standard edition of OS 10.4.8 - is there a hardware and or software solution to do this?? Thank you!
bobw - Feb 6, 2007 - 11:42 am
Hi Marc
See if anything here works for you;
http://www.versiontracker.com/php/se...7Cosx&x=10&y=8
Or, in OS X itself;
Open the Internet Config application (in your /Applications folder).
In the file menu select "New VPN connection window".
Enter your login/pass along with the VPN address
Haven't used VPN, so I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for.
bobw
http://www.macosx.com
See if anything here works for you;
http://www.versiontracker.com/php/se...7Cosx&x=10&y=8
Or, in OS X itself;
Open the Internet Config application (in your /Applications folder).
In the file menu select "New VPN connection window".
Enter your login/pass along with the VPN address
Haven't used VPN, so I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for.
bobw
http://www.macosx.com
grindstone - Feb 6, 2007 - 12:23 pm
sorry if my question was not clear - I want others to VPN into my standard OS mac -
bobw - Feb 6, 2007 - 12:29 pm
Marc
Ok, I'll reopen your question.
bobw
Ok, I'll reopen your question.
bobw
cavaughan - Feb 7, 2007 - 8:55 am
I find the question very interesting and therefore hope to tackle it with you. However, I would like to ask what you wish to accomplish by it? Is it just some other clients can gain access to files on your hard drive? If so, I would just enable ssh on my OSX machine and, say the client is a Windows computer, have them use WinSCP to connect to OSX and they will have a GUI for doing all that work. I think UNITTY on OSX works the same way.
Anyhow, on to enabling a VPN server on OSX.
I found the following article:
1)http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/20/vpn.html
Go straight to page 2.
Be sure to read the users' comments. And the author of this article toward the end of the comments provide additional links to additional articles.
Also there is software called OpenVPN which runs on a Mac (so they say). It's at:
http://openvpn.net/
As an additional note, a lot of routers have built in VPNs. Maybe you could purchase a router for such purposes.
Finally, if it were me and I had to have a VPN, I will set up an IPCop computer. You can set it up on some really old hardware (and therefore cheap) and it will work and it works great. I use it at the company I work at. It's great for VPN, as a firewall, for NAT, etc.
Check it out.
http://www.ipcop.org
Hopefully, I've given you a place to start.
Anyhow, on to enabling a VPN server on OSX.
I found the following article:
1)http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/20/vpn.html
Go straight to page 2.
Be sure to read the users' comments. And the author of this article toward the end of the comments provide additional links to additional articles.
Also there is software called OpenVPN which runs on a Mac (so they say). It's at:
http://openvpn.net/
As an additional note, a lot of routers have built in VPNs. Maybe you could purchase a router for such purposes.
Finally, if it were me and I had to have a VPN, I will set up an IPCop computer. You can set it up on some really old hardware (and therefore cheap) and it will work and it works great. I use it at the company I work at. It's great for VPN, as a firewall, for NAT, etc.
Check it out.
http://www.ipcop.org
Hopefully, I've given you a place to start.
grindstone - Feb 9, 2007 - 9:21 am
Thanks for your input - I will give it a try -
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