Remote Access Question

[mattbeals]

Ideally it would sit out in front, but it doesn't have to. What I did was simply tell the router to redirect all VPN traffic to a second NIC on my server. That NIC I named "external". The other NIC I named "internal" and set it up from there. One of things you'll have to do is make sure that there are DHCP addresses available to hand out, so you'll need a DHCP server. You might be able to define a range manually, I don't remember.

It would be well worth the money to have an IT guy come in for this. There's nothing "sensitive" on my network or computers that I am worried about someone else seeing. But on your network I'm sure there is payroll and other personal information somewhere on the network or on a network resource. Be very careful or better yet bring someone in who explicitly knows how how to set up a VPN.

Apple's VPN services work just fine too, but it's been a long while since I set up VPN services on Mac OS X Server.

One nice thing about Windows Remote Access Services is that users can be restricted to times or locations of log-in. I can set my son up so he can log-in from his laptop when he's at school but not from other locations.

[Aaron]

that's cool that you can specify remote access locations. That sounds like a good feature. So you don't think the Xserver can do that?

Thanks for all the input Matt. I'm going to approach the owner and see what he wants to do.

[mattbeals]

Yes, Mac OS X Server *can* be a VPN server too. No problem with that.

[Aaron]

I meant the restrictions stuff. Access points. But no worries. I'm going to go googling for a while.

[mattbeals]

Oh, sorry. I would imagine that Mac OS X Server can do the same thing. Like I said, it's been a while since I've set one up. At the time I had no need for access restrictions. Last year when I put m VPN in I did need to set certain restrictions.

[Aaron]

Cool. Thanks again Matt.