Hello, I've looked at a few of the VPN options out there. Hardware, windows 2003, openvpn, ipcop, etc. etc. I would like your input on what the easiest to set-up on the CLIENT side is. If that means more configuration on the server, that's fine, but the clients connecting in are very computer illiterate and the easier it will be to walk them through, the happier everyone will be.
To give you a layout of what I'm working with, I have a 25 person windows server 2003/xp network, behind a shorewall firewall. I want our "roadwarriors" both nationally and internationally to be able to easily connect to our base network. They will also be running windows xp home or pro (a few of each).
One additional caveat. I used SSH a long time ago so am not up-to-date on it's capabilities. For my international users, I would like to have them use SSH to tunnel ALL internet traffic (such as web browsing and email retrieval) through the server here. Seeing as I have a spare 800mhz pc laying around, I was going to put OpenVPN (or a "better" vpn solution ya'll can possibly suggest:smile
and SSH on it, and perhaps proxy software (haven't done any research on that YET though). So if my question isn't clear, can I use SSH to encrypt all my web-browsing and e-mail retrieval (through MS Outlook most likely)?
Thank you for your time
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