Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] [BULK] Re: Dual VPN Servers

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Fri, February 2, 2007 08:00, Frank Weis wrote:
> On Friday 02 February 2007 14:47:13 Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>
>> On Fri, February 2, 2007 04:59, Frank Weis wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I know this is slightly off topic, but here's what I'm trying todo:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have two different networks behind my firewalls. Both are Windows
>>> domains. At the moment users of one network have VPN access from the
>>> outside: on their
>>> AD server, the vpn-users are all member of a special container, and I
>>> use pptpd with samba/winbind/ntlm_auth via ntlm_auth-helper to
>>> authenticate them.
>>>
>>> Now, users of the other Network/Domain also need VPN access to their
>>> network from outside. I can easily add a second IP to the outside NIC,
>>>  and run a separate pptpd, but i'd also need to instances of Samba
>>> running; this seems exremely complicated and hard to maintain, IF I
>>> can manage to get it to work at all.
>>>
>>> Do you ppl have any ideas for alternatives? I could possibly use a
>>> different vpn server for the second network but there has to be a
>>> windows client, and the client setup has to be straightforward (ie
>>> openvpn is considered too hard for my users).
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot in advance
>>>
>>
>> What about the option of just using another DL box?
>
>
> I forgot to mention: it mustn't cost any money :-P

I knew it couldn't have been that easy... ;-)
How many users are you talking about? Can you just re-use an old box?

Did you look at the 2.x OpenVPN version, maybe that's easier to use for
Endusers.

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  Heiko Zuerker
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