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VPN Client Needed with OS X?
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Feb 24, 2003, 05:15 PM
 
I am using Mac OS X and was told by Apple Care that it doesn't support VPN. I need to use VPN to connect to my work network (on Windows NT.) Is there client software out there that will allow me to do so? If so, does anyone have a recommendation?
     
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Feb 24, 2003, 06:57 PM
 
Originally posted by zsazsag:
I am using Mac OS X and was told by Apple Care that it doesn't support VPN. I need to use VPN to connect to my work network (on Windows NT.) Is there client software out there that will allow me to do so? If so, does anyone have a recommendation?
cisco makes a nice vpn client for ipsec.. find out what kind of vpn access your running...i'm running the latest osx with cisco's client piece against a pix firewall..if your admin makes cisco pcf files (policy config files), you can import them into the mac client.

hope this helps
     
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Feb 27, 2003, 11:18 AM
 
There is a VPN client built into Mac OS X. Click here for how to get to that one.

Then I tried a product called VPN tracker. Do a google search for that one.
     
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Mar 3, 2003, 09:57 PM
 
It all depends on who's VPN server you need to talk to. If it's a PPTP, you're all set. But other systems need specific software to work.

I have a wintel machine at the office that had to get put on an IP outside the router so it could run VPN clients from Cisco and... erm, whoever makes SmartRemote.
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