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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / July 2007VPN: Anyone know how do do this?.....
Basically I want to redisplay my work laptop screen onto my Mac in a window. At work we use a well-locked down setup - WinXP, Nortel VPN and Tunnelguard so far I've been unable to use remote desktop to get at it, or even VNC. TCP-IP is totally tunnelled and guarded! So I was thinking, could I use some sort of usb connection if such a thing exists, most likely it doesn't, or maybe I could get to it via Appletalk or some other protocol? All this cos I can't be arsed swapping the video lead over...... > Basically I want to redisplay my work laptop screen onto my Mac in a window. > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > You can get a Nortel VPN client for the Mac from www.apani.com. Once you have this installed and set up you can VPN into work and then use VNC to connect to your work PC or do pretty much anything else that you might do if you were directly connected to the network. Paul >> Basically I want to redisplay my work laptop screen onto my Mac in a window. >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Paul I've tried that. It connects ok but it doesn't do all the extra stuff my work VPN setup does, like routing etc, I know I can sort that but I thought I'd have a look at other options first. Their OSX client looks awful...... I've also tried Digitunnel which is supposed to work with Nortel but it doesn't work for me... >>> Basically I want to redisplay my work laptop screen onto my Mac in a window. >>> [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > I've also tried Digitunnel which is supposed to work with Nortel but it > doesn't work for me... I'm not sure what you mean by "routing" in this context. When I connect to work via the VPN the default routing that I get seems to do the right thing, i.e. all the network traffic for work (10.x.x.x) goes over the VPN and everything else ignores the VPN and uses a direct connection. Do you need to do something other than this ? Paul >> I've tried that. It connects ok but it doesn't do all the extra stuff my >> work VPN setup does, like routing etc, I know I can sort that but I thought [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > VPN and everything else ignores the VPN and uses a direct connection. Do > you need to do something other than this ? I think so - our VPN client is bespoke, a wrapper around the various bits of COTS software installed on the laptop. When I use the OSX client I have the tunnel up, but I think I'm still using the routing table as before cos all I see is my local network. On the lappy the table is different, local network is totally invisible, I only see work stuff. It's very clever, and life is too short. Which is why I thought of alternative ways. I might just try adding the routes with a script but whilst I'm comfortable with this in Solaris, I'm not so sure under OSX. Also at the back of my mind is I shouldn't be hacking like this - but I hate the frigging slowness of the laptop with XP it's no slouch in spec terms but by Christ it faffs about loading stuff in the systray and popping up balloons telling me stuff but hiding the tray icons I want to get info from.... I might try it from my Sparc box, I know I can do VPN tunnelling on the interface directly, but I reckon I can't with Nortel switches, seems quite proprietary... >>> I've tried that. It connects ok but it doesn't do all the extra stuff my >>> work VPN setup does, like routing etc, I know I can sort that but I thought [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > interface directly, but I reckon I can't with Nortel switches, seems quite > proprietary... OK - well I won't pretend to understand what's going on with youe work network - it sounds odd though. The Apani VPN client works fine for me with Nortel switches and SecurID authentication and I've never had to mess with adding routes etc - it all just seems to work. The only other thing I can think of is that maybe you're using IP ranges locally which clash with the IP ranges on the remote network, e.g. if you're using 10.x.x.x on your local router and the remote network is also using 10.x.x.x ? I use 192.168.x.x for my local network as my workplace uses 10.x.x.x. Paul > OK - well I won't pretend to understand what's going on with youe work > network - it sounds odd though. The Apani VPN client works fine for me [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > also using 10.x.x.x ? I use 192.168.x.x for my local network as my > workplace uses 10.x.x.x. That's it! I use 10's and work uses 10's. And 192's and 172's.... The desktop's use 10's tho and this is where the clash is. Then we use Citrix to the other subnets... I'll give it a whirl. Cheers! Steve >> OK - well I won't pretend to understand what's going on with youe work >> network - it sounds odd though. The Apani VPN client works fine for me [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > I'll give it a whirl. Cool - let us know how it goes. Paul > On 29/7/07 20:49, in article 5h49baF3irc2...@mid.individual.net, "Paul > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I don't mean this in a kill-joy sense, but you might want to ask your work IT department. They will probably have locked down their network for a reason, and in some organisations plugging in a "foreign" device into their network is really frowned upon...Let alone setting up VPNs into their network... If you can connect the Mac to their network and get an IP address then VNC will do the job. Ric > Basically I want to redisplay my work laptop screen onto my Mac in a window. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > All this cos I can't be arsed swapping the video lead over...... just out of interest, i wonder what would happen if you used the parallels transporter tool to convert your work laptop windows install to a parallels image, and then ran it as a VM under parallels? not that i'd condone this kind of thing on someone else's network.... > just out of interest, i wonder what would happen if you used the > parallels transporter tool to convert your work laptop windows install > to a parallels image, and then ran it as a VM under parallels? not > that i'd condone this kind of thing on someone else's network.... Can't happen - PPC land here! I'm waiting for the new iMac's to come out - better be bloody worth it... |
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