Connect Standard Windows VPN to Linux box

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Jan 15 00:02:33 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:45 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
> 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.
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try 'yum search pptp'

Craig


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