[OCLUG-Tech] Eee PC VPN
After Pat's talk, I went out last week and got one of the EeePCs so Mary
and I would not fight for keyboard to do email when travelling. Since
we'll be at a couple of universities in new year, I tried our own U of O
VPN. No joy with the installed software on the Eee (apparently using
iproute and pptp-linux). From eeeuser forums I got suggestions to use
vpnc (which I used successfully on my Ubuntu Acer laptop). However, with
vpnc set up and configured via the terminal, I can get the welcome
banner in text (response to vpnc-connect command) but my web browser
continues to show the "You need to download the VPN client" page from
our U of O computing service. This page is VERY hard to get rid of when
I get home. Have to purge all the history and restart Firefox. Sigh.
Forum member suggested he had to "restore resolv.conf", though no
suggestion as to what state to restore to.
I'd like to get this going, as I feel the Eee PC is a great subversive
way to crack the M$ fortress at U of O. I took it to the secretarial
pool and now know why it is "Eee" from the squeals. They all want one
and had figured out where to buy one before I had time to answer the
lady who asked where it could be purchased.
For info, I also got it to print to our Novell based network printer. I
installed ncpfs, but may not have needed to. There were hooks in the Eee
PC printer dialog for an App:Socket printer and this worked fine as I
already knew the IP number.
I suspect most of my troubles are that I know only some parts of
networking, and am missing understanding of other details. Suggest
contacting me off-list and I'll put up solution when found. I'm also
hoping to get a link on the U of O CCS site for such material, even if
we put it on Tux.
JN