Netware & VPN

[robbieb14]

Ok, we have a Netware 6 server at work which we connect to through xp boxes running client 4.9.

I have set up a VPN router Dlink DI-804HV(IPSEC) on the LAN & installed DLink DS-601 client software on a remote laptop which now gives me access to the LAN.

I want to install the netware client on the laptop connect to the netware server through the VPN tunnel and have full access to the server is if I was on the LAN.

Will it work and/or what do I need to do so it will?? Do I need to change any settings on the Netware Server,VPN router, Novell client?

 

[Provogeek]

theoreticly, yea, it will work.

All settings would be in your VPN, you should not have to change anything on your Netware server.

The only difference I would make on the client is the login method. No real differences in configuration. For logging in, I would use full user DN and server IP address instead of short user name, tree, context, server name. By entering the IP address in server name you by pass any need for SLP to locate the server. Doing this you then have to specify full DN for your user ID so it can be found in the tree.

Now, doing this means you did not have to reconfigure the lcient after install. If you choose, you can program the SLP info into the client. If at any point you said "SLP?", go talk to your sys admin, if you are admin, that talk to your intergrator or look up SLP in the manual.

Through a VPN, you real consern will be name resolution. How will it be done and what functionality do you expect. VPN software works different from vendor to vendor. When I use Novell's VPN, all traffic goes through VPN, and local traffic will get redirected to the VPN. This means, you can connect to the VPN, but if you want to do a web browser lookup, the traffic will go through the VPN, not your local connection. But Novell's VPN is also an entry level VPN in my opinion. Better VPN solution would allow you to use both the VPN and your local connection and will determin what traffic goes were (CheckPoint has a really good one).

I hope your a really small company, you bought a product that was intended for the home, not really a business (even though it's marketed for small business). If just a couple of users want to use it, you will be okay. If over 8 people want to use it, invest in a better VPN solution.

I can't even find a reference to the DS-601 client software you speek of. Are you sure you got the right parts? When I scanned through the manual for the DI-804HV I see no reference to a client to site VPN model, just a site to site VPN model.

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[robbieb14]

Thanks Provogeek for your response , yep we are small company with only 15+ workstations and we already have a VPN solution via Sun Cobalt Qube3 box but that only works with static ip's.

We needed a small cheap vpn router for a couple of sales rep's that will be connecting to the LAN now & then via dynamic ip's with their laptops.

If you type DS-601 into google you should find some info on the cllient software we are using. I agree I could of gone for a more robust vpn solution but for the amount of people connecting it seems to do the job fine.

It's main job is to allow the rep's to connect to a ICOBOL server using putty on their laptops desktop and it works great, but it would be even better if it was to connect to our netware server as well. Shall give it a try!!