On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 09:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Chris Smart wrote: > > 2010/1/15 j.halifax . <j.halifax@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > >>> However under Fedora, I can't fund the pptpd package. > >>> > >> Yes. yum says me "No package pptpd available." :( > >> Thank you. > >> > > > > You can download the source yourself and build it: > > http://poptop.sourceforge.net/ > > > > It has a sample pptpd.conf which you can edit. > > > > > > > I really don't understand the conundrum. > > The standard vpn server on a Windows box uses pptp. So, when I want my > linux box to access a windows system I use a pptp client on my linux box > to create a vpn tunnel to the windows system that is running a pptp server. > > When I want a windows system to access/create a vpn tunnel I have my > linux box running the openvpn server and the windows box using an > openvpn client. > > So, the question is simply "what side do you want to be the server, and > what side the client". ---- I think they want to actually set up a pptp server on Linux - c'est la vie. Apparently pptpd has never been packaged in Fedora but it is available as part of RHEL. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350381 I don't understand why. I tend to use RHEL or CentOS for servers so I was unaware of this. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
