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Re: VPN Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas H. Grayson)
Thu Jul 18 13:55:30 2002
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To: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
cc: Tim Boyden <trboyden@PLANT.MIT.EDU>, "'Chris Meehan'" <cmeehan@MIT.EDU>,
winpartners@MIT.EDU, itpartners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:13:30 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:51:47 -0400
From: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
I'll chime in and mention that AFS works over AT&T Broadband. OpenAFS
(available for free from www.openafs.org) works with Leash32 to provide access
to MIT's Athena AFS cell. You'd install AFS, tell it to use the
athena.mit.edu cell, then use Leash32 (not the AFS client) to obtain AFS
tokens. You may have to use Leash32's Options > AFS Properties menu to enable
AFS. It's possible (though don't ask me how) to set up one's own AFS cell if
needed.
Tom Grayson
> From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:13:30 -0400
> Subject: RE: VPN Question
>
> 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
>
