OK, allow me to build some clarifying maps for myself:
Your linux box (at home?) needs internet access through a dial-up ISP, your
personal ISP I assume?
Interenet <== LinuxBox
But, you want to be able to access a work LAN's windows boxes?
Windows \
Windows - = Company LAN ==> Interenet <== LinuxBox
Windows /
Or, You want to be able to use your Windows Boxes connected to the (home?)
LinuxBox LAN to browse the internet?
/ Windows
Interenet <== LinuxBox =HUB= - Windows
\ Windows
Accessing your Linux box through the internet with a secure connection is
easy, and you do not have to set up full VPN software to do it, unless you
wish to have PPTP connections for HTTP services. For this, I would SSH2, or
OpenSSH (in development).
To set up NAT (Masquerading/Proxy) is easy through ipchains, and we can set
the firewall up at the same time. Actually, a handy script called pmfirewall
can do the job quite nicely, and we can customise it if we need to.
Does the Linux Box have internet access at all right now? or is it in limbo
waiting for the modem and dial-up acount to be configured?
--Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Greg,
>
> I am trying to do two things. First and most importantly, I want to be
able
> to dial into my server using a phone line. When I dial in, I want to be
> able to access the server and the windows machines on the network. If
> possible, I would like to access the Internet using NAT so that I can
access
> my ISP's resources.
>
> The second thing that I would like to do is to access my server from the
> Internet using preferably PPTP so that I can access the machines on my
> network through the server and still use NAT to access my ISP's resources.
>
> My IP allows my to access certain resources, such as NNTP, by IP address.
>
> Once I get all of this running, I will worry about setting up a firewall.
>
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Stewart
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 6:01 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] pppd Server? + other questions.
>
> Exacltly what are you trying to do? Create an FTP Server? an HTTP Server?
A
> Proxy/Firewall?
>
> There are innumerable configurations possible for this, and yes, depending
> on how you configure your machine you can serve a VPN connection with
> SLL.There are many packages available for SSL services.
>
> The GUI application that I use most often is linuxconf, which can be used
> through DrakConf, or by su-ing to root in terminal and simply typing
> linuxconf. I am not sure if MDK has the command line "gui' called
setup--it
> may have been left out in recent MDK distros (it's a RedHat thing).
>
> If you have questions on configuring Firewall, Masquerading, LAN, etc,
> please let me know.
>
> --Greg
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: George Brooks
>
> Where can I find information on how to allow incoming connections to my
> Mandrake 7.1 box? I downloaded the software from the net so I do not have
> the documentation. If I can get this service to work, I will buy the
> software when version 7.2 is released. Is there any online documentation?
> CD?
>
> Also, can Mandrake be used as a VPN server?
>
> And finally, what is the name of the GUI program used to configure the
> system? It took me at least 10 installations with four different brands
of
> Ethernet adapters to allow me connect the server to a network. One of the
> installations had a desktop program to allow me to run a program similar
to
> linuxconf(sp?) in a graphical mode. Now I can only seem to run it in a
very
> annoying text mode.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> George
>
>
>
>
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