Re: [Openvpn-als-devel] [openvpn-als - Open Discussion] Future of Adito/OpenVPN ALS

[Klaus V. S. <kl...@vi...>]

On 14 april 2010 09:33:09 sam...@gm... wrote:
> > Proxy access to other websites is currently provided by
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/poxy/ on our web server.
> 
> Interesting project, have not seen that one.
It seem that the project is abandoned tough - but hey if it works: dont fix 
it. Anyway I think there is many alternatives for simple proxy solutions out 
there. Might even be possible to combine it with SUMO Access Manager.

> > For Linux users to access network drives I've successfully tested drive
> > mapping over ssh (sshfs) on Linux. But in many cases Dolphin, Nautilus or
> > just plain shell are sufficient.[cut]
> If SSH access is available then I think Nautilus + gvfs-fuse works great.
sshfs is fuse based as well I think. On my daughters little netbook I made a 
simple solution by placing a sshfs connect script in the folder which is the 
mountpoint. So when she enters the folder and the ssh file system is not 
mounted, well the script is right there to be launched ;-)

But in many cases a Linux desktop user dont need mounting the filesystem at 
all. At least KDE Dolphin can handle files directly over ssh by typing 
fish://user@server in the path (I think Nautilus can do equal by typing 
ssh:... in the path line). 

> > Still sometimes we have users ending up behind firewalls which do not
> > allow ssh, imaps or smtps. Here some kind of tunneling would be nice.
> > Something like
> > http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/http-proxy-tunnel/
> > might be able to solve the problem. But it seems not easy to configure on
> > the client machine.
> 
> Looks a little "hackish" :).
Just what I thought. 

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Regards
Klaus