[877] in winnt
RE: VPN Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan McIndoe Hunt)
Thu Jul 18 13:17:55 2002
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:13:30 -0400
To: Tim Boyden <trboyden@PLANT.MIT.EDU>, "'Chris Meehan'" <cmeehan@mit.edu>,
winpartners@mit.edu
From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: itpartners@mit.edu
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Good Afternoon,
Information Systems is looking into the situation with AT&T Broadband and
will work on having a recommendation for the community soon.
If you need a solution before then, setting up a Windows 2000 Professional
machine to provide a VPN as mentioned earlier is probably the easiest short
term answer until we have a better solution in place.
Jon
___________________________________________
Jonathan M. Hunt
Windows Platform Coordinator and Team Leader
Software Release Team
Information Systems
W92-191 x3-0172
At 06:51 PM 7/16/2002 -0400, Tim Boyden wrote:
>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
