PPTP VPN tunnel from Linux PC to Windows network??

From: bosseb (bo.berglund_at_system3r.se)
Date: 01/13/05


Date: 13 Jan 2005 12:57:32 -0800

I would like to connect my new Mandrake 10 laptop to the company LAN
through a PPTP VPN tunnel. Is this possible?
If so how do I go about it?
The company LAN uses a Windows 2000 server as the VPN server and it has
a PPTP connector through which I am able to connect from my XP-Pro PC
into the network.
On XP it was a breeze to create the VPN connection, but how do I do
this on Linux.
Obviously I am a newbie (installed Mandrake only a couple of days ago).
Now I want to be able to reach the CVS server on the internal network,
so I must get through the VPN tunnel...

Grateful for any hints on how to do this.
(For the time being I am connecting my docking station NIC instead of
the non-working 3C589C PCCARD I have been asking about recently...)
/Bo B



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