[KLUG Members] question on firewall distro for VPN

[Jason Edward Durrett]

> I have played with SmoothWall and it is impressive but there is one 
> limitation. I have a Windows 2000 machine running a VPN server for a 
> couple of our users. (3 to be exact) For instance the boss likes to 
> print to his work printer so I have it set up so he can VPN in and 
> print to his network printer for his secretary. Another is the finance 
> guy so he can Remote Desktop in to his XP machine and run his 
> quickbooks software from home.
>

I have a p2-233 running SSH with port forwarding.  The person in my 
office who uses quickbooks uses Putty on his windows machine to RDP to 
his windows desktop from home.  It is not the most elegant solution but 
it is practical with just a couple of remote users and easy to set up.