Re: [Nolug] VNC Client on linux to connet to symantec VPN

From: Jeff Lee <jeffreydavidlee_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:34:40 +0000
Message-ID: <Law15-F7vdrEb6MXb0z0004b397@hotmail.com>

I installed the cisco vpn client and I connect to the system but it will not
take my username and password. I am using 3DES for security from windows?
Also is there a gui for this?

>Color me confused. Why would you need "a vnc client to work with the
>symantic vpn"? If the VPN is working, the groundwork is laid for VNC to
>work. There should be nothing to prevent VNC or any other upper layer
>network protocol from working over your VPN. I use VNC through various VPN
>methodologies constantly.
>
>In other words, if you can ping the IPs of the boxes _inside_ the VPN, you
>can
>VNC to them. If you can't ping them, you need to work on getting your
>linux
>box to talk to your VPN. If you can ping your AS400 boxes and still not
>connect with VNC, you have some other VNC-specific problem.
>
>What I think you mean is that you need a VPN client that runs under Linux
>to
>connect to your Symantec VPN "server". [1] It is possible from what I
>have
>read to connect a FreeSWAN running linux box to a symantec box though I
>haven't done that particular combination myself. This is very dependent on
>just how the Symantec side of the connection is set up.
>
>
>[1] technically, IPSEC is peer-to-peer.
>--
>Scott Harney <scotth@scottharney.com>
>"...and one script to rule them all."
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>
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