The firewall would be IPCHAINS setup with PMfirewall. It's an office network and the owner wants to be able to access the accounts data and run the accounts program on her laptop while connected to the internet aboad over a secure tunnel through the firewall to a fileserver. I don't see why the data can't be in a directory on the firewall, but others have told me not to do this. The firewall will allow email in and out, web traffic, and will run no external services except for SSH. The Owner will us Windows on the laptop, the accounts program will be MYOB, and it must be a multiuser setup with filelocking, which I beleive MYOB will do itself. I do something very similar, in that my accounts data is on a Debian server, I use Quickbooks in Multi-user mode, so I don;t think that is a problem. The biggest problem is how to tunnel in through a firewall to an internal machine using windows on each end and the firewall in the middle.
Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq -----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:58 AM To: Chris Mason Cc: Debian-User Subject: Re: VPN A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Is there a way to VPN windows machines through a Debian machihne acting as > firewall? More information, please: what precisely does the firewall do, and how precisely do the Windows machines need to connect? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
