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RE: VPN Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Boyden)
Tue Jul 16 18:51:19 2002
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From: Tim Boyden <trboyden@PLANT.MIT.EDU>
To: "'Chris Meehan'" <cmeehan@MIT.EDU>, winpartners@MIT.EDU
Cc: itpartners@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:51:15 -0400
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Chris, how many users are we talking?
With just a few people you could have them VPN to their work machines
(running Win2k) which would give you access to your Microsoft shares. You
set that up by going through Settings -> Dial-up and Network Settings and
running the connection wizard choosing the Incoming connection option using
VPN over TCP. This method would give you Microsoft NT Authentication
security for the connection and you could add upon that by using Ipsec. I
think with that they may need to be running Win2k or better at home however.
For more people you could setup a stand-alone (non-DC) Win2k server with
Remote services enabled and configured for VPN access.
You should be able to find some decent instructions via Technet on how to
set it up.
Tim Boyden
MIT Department of Facilities
Applications & Desktop Services Team
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Meehan [mailto:cmeehan@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:07 PM
To: winpartners@MIT.EDU
Cc: itpartners@MIT.EDU
Subject: VPN Question
Hi All,
Now that AT&T has shut down the ports used for Microsoft file sharing we
are forced to look for alternative methods for our home users to connect to
the office servers.
AT&T said that a VPN could be used to establish the connection, now that
the ports (137-139) are shut down.
Does anyone have any experience with VPNs or a similar technology, that
would allow Microsoft file sharing with out using ports 137-139.
Thanks
Chris
