Simple VPN software?

[johnny boy]

Afternoon all

I have a fixed I/P address from my ISP and an internal home network.

If I want to have full remote access from work to a device on my home network at, say, I/P address 192.168.0.2, is there a simple piece of software that will achieve this for me?

I want to avoid going down the hardware route if possible as this is a cost exercise and my home DSL connection is via a PCI card rather than an external router/modem.

Cheers

John

[pdV6]

Simplest way might be to set up passwrod-protected shares on your PC, install a decent firewall (e.g. ZoneAlarm) and set it up to deny incominc traffic to anything except your company's IP range.

Firewall stops intruders & share passwords stops your colleagues.

Not the best solution, I'll grant, but it could work on a budget of £0.00.

[stc_bennett]

How about real VNC or setup a VPN on your System, But use a firewall and have it fully updated, daily in the schedule.

Some one on hear could divulge more on the VPN i aint gotta clue

Steve

[Bodo]

Software solutions for VPN:

The server: www.poptop.org/
The client: http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/

[tuffer]

http://vpn.ebootis.de/

www.eits.uga.edu/nt2000/vpn.htm

www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/communications/vpn/default.asp

http://support.real-time.com/windows/vpn/windows_2000_vpn.html

>> Edited by tuffer on Wednesday 10th September 21:47

[lake]

how about

http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/

Apparently it is very good, although it does not use standard IPSec

Lake

[ErnestM]

How many and what type of PC's at home (Win98,XP,2kServer)?

ErnestM

[fatsteve]

Could try running OpenSSH (I assume the server version is availble for wintel).

I use it for remote telent access to my servers at home. Also, with ssh, you can set-up tunnels so for example; I've a port 5900 tunnel so I can VNC onto my desktops.

OpenSSH and VNC are free, only drawback is they require a certain degree of techie knowledge to configure.

Steve

[johnny boy]

ErnestM said:

How many and what type of PC's at home (Win98,XP,2kServer)? ErnestM

Hi Ernest,

I have a main PC running Win 2K Pro and then various other devices attached like a SliMP3 player, surveillance kit, etc. etc.

Each has a fixed I/P address of the form 192.168.0.xxx

What I actually want to do is access the surveillance stuff from work, ie translate my fixed external I/P to the I/P address of my internal unit (I think!)

Regards

John