I like all of the infomation I'm reading. I suppose the discussion of VNC as
a counter-solution to setting up a VPN is regarding the dedicated encrypted
form of the VNC (RFB?) protocol so that it safe to control a PC remotely? I
think I've heard of such a protocol, but I haven't seen or tried it. If so,
that wouldn't be too bad as an intermediate choice, but my decision for going
VPN is mostly to get to a company intellectual property repository rather
than control workstations to roundabout access the I.P. Also, setting up
Windows VNC servers with client stations introduces a user security
responsibility with passwords and open ports to those end stations. I can't
trust end users with security let alone trust windows machines with security
on top of that. All of my windows machines at home are network neutered and I
proudly did it with garden shears!
/mario
On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:43, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 11:12, Rock wrote:
> > That was going to be my next question. I think I will have an
> > opportunity to take us from NT as the VPN host to Linux as the host for
> > our MS clients. Has anyone ever used this freeswan.org product
> > commercially?
>
> I use FreeS/WAN extensively - mostly for point-to-point IPSEC tunnels
> (with ESP) over insecure connections. From experience, FreeS/WAN works
> well with Checkpoint and 3COM VPN Concentrators (and costs considerably
> less). My earlier post had a link for setting up FreeS/WAN for
> WinXP/2000 clients with x509 certs.
>
> > Also there is VNC, but I thought that was only from linux to linux. Did
> > not know there was a MS version available.
>
> VNC is not a VPN solution, but instead a tool which enables a user to
> remotely control another host machine. VPN implies the ability to tunnel
> into another network to establish secure connectivity; or to connect two
> or more networks over an insecure network (like the internet).
>
>
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