Topic: vpn

[maccamob]

all,
i am thinking of setting up a gateway sme server as a filestore at our main branch, to serve the local site its at and have a dsl (1-2mb)connection allowing vpn connections from our client machines at the other remote sites approximately 30 clients(3-5 clients on each). each remote site will have a 512kb connection shared from a gateway box then the clients behind that box will make simultaneious VPN connections to the e-smith server and access the file store and future email serving. are there any/many issues/implications i should worry about be aware of here. like unauthorised acces from any non vpn internet connections, s'pose what im asking if i create a filestore and allow only private access will the VPN clients be treated as local/privet network connections and will the filestore be accesible from unauthorised internet connections?(hackable)
does e smith work as i firewall to?
make sense?

kind regards
still learning
Macca

[Ray Mitchell]

Dear maccamob
Have you downloaded and read the handbook available on e-smith.org, and while you're there you could also read the FAQ, and have a look at the Contributed HPWTO's and RPM's.Your concerns and lots more are already answered.

Re remote VPN via Internet, my understanding is that it is "as if" you were connected locally, so make sure you set up your users access rights correctly and this will stop unauthorised access, and yes sme/e-smith is a firewall. See the White Papers on e-smith .org re security etc.
Regards
Ray Mitchell