[H-GEN] Request for help with smoothwall firewall

[Anthony Irwin]

On Thu, September 22, 2005 2:49 pm, Ronald Bradford
wrote:
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> However two things remain, VPN & VNC access.   I've
been unsuccessful in
> doing testing of VPN access from a Windoze machine
(which all staff use).
> While there is a certain amount of accessible
documentation, it's a lot
> to wade through and consensus is VPN is complicated,
and with Microsoft
> not supporting IPsec very difficult hence my request
for anybody that
> could give some valuable assistance first hand.

I haven't personally done any vpn stuff but I have
forwarded vnc
connections through a firewall.

I use a program called port forward to forward
incomming vnc ports to
different users. for example 1 user would use port
5501 another would use
5502 etc.

you can get port foward from
http://portfwd.sourceforge.net/ it is a
simple program to compile.


you can set up a simple script like vnc.cfg that would
look something like
below.
tcp {
   /* Forwarding Clients */
   5501 { => localuserip:5501 } /* users name */
   5502 { => localuserip:5502 } /* users name */

   /* Forwarding Servers */
   5901 { => localuserip:5900 } /* usersname */
   5902 { => localuserip:5900 } /* usersname */
}

Then you can run it with portfwd -c vnc.cfg. Ofcause
you need to have the
firewall letting it through.

Then users can vnc in from outside by running vnc and
typing serverip:port
as the address and providing vncserver is running on
the machine in
question then all should work fine. You can also see
their machine by them
running vnc in a different way with who runs vncserver
vs client etc but i
can't remember off the top of my head.

Anyway hope this helps.

Kind Regards,
Anthony Irwin

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