On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 13:37, James Drabb wrote: > Do you know if this will work with a standard corporate firewall? The > MS Admins where I work block SSH but let Telnet! > > Looking at the OpenVPN expample they have this simple setup: > > On may: > openvpn --remote june.kg --dev tun1 --ifconfig \ > 10.4.0.1 10.4.0.2 --verb 9 > > On june: > openvpn --remote may.kg --dev tun1 --ifconfig \ > 10.4.0.2 10.4.0.1 --verb 9 > > The problem with this is that I want to have a VPN from my home network > to my corporate desktop. The work desktop does not have an Internet > addressable IP/name. My home PC has a dynamic IP although I use > dydns.org so I can always get to it. So how would I enter the --remote > name/IP for my corporate desktop from home? > > I guess I could use SSH on another port, though a VPN would have more > utility and let me mount samba shares from my home FC1 desktop to my > work FC1 desktop. > > Jim Drabb Jim, You could look at the August 2003 issue of Linux Journal. There is a solution to a similar problem solved using a program called vtun. As for tunneling SMB through SSH, it works. Travis
