On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 18:03:12 -0400 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following:
> > Moot point really, though, I guess, the OP's sysadmins aren't going to let > > him VNC in anyhow. > > Since he is trying to access a machine at work, my guess is that he will need > to VPN in, more than likely the server won't be running SSH and he will need > to connect to some central VPN server since that is likely the only one with > a publicly accessible IP. > > However, not at all sure that it will help. If work is completely MS, then > much of the networking and connections, file mapping, etc is likely to > require Windows as well. Wouldn't Freeswan and Samba take care of both of those? From the Freeswan site: "...and with the appropriate patches interops nicely with Microsoft Windows XP/2000 using X.509 certificates." I can see it being easier by far though to follow your line of thinking and just use a Windows box :-( -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:46:20 up 18 days, 14:01, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.11, 0.03 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "At least 855 American soldiers have died since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, and nearly 85 percent of those casualties occurred after President Bush declared an end to major combat operations on May 1, 2003." -- New York Times, Thursday 01 July 2004
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