Connect Standard Windows VPN to Linux box

Chris Smart mail at christophersmart.com
Thu Jan 14 23:45:23 UTC 2010


2010/1/15 j.halifax . <j.halifax at seznam.cz>:
> Thank you for your advise...
>
> The
> http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/vpn-setup-using-pptp.html
> describes the connecting as Linux box to Linux VPN server (if I
> understand it correctly). No mention about MSW

PPTP is the Microsoft VPN protocol, so creating a server on Linux will
allow Windows users to connect to it.

Under Debian it's a matter of:
sudo apt-get install pptpd

And setting up a username and password in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.

However under Fedora, I can't fund the pptpd package.

-c


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