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VPN (Virtual Private Network) at the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen

Infos regarding the usage of VPN

Instructions for Windows 2000, XP and VISTA

Instructions for MacOS X 10.4

Instructions for Linux vpnc Client (recommened)

1. Install vpnc

sudo aptitude install vpnc

2. Create configuration file unibz.conf.

 Please Note: IPSec obfuscated secret ... needs to be on a single line. Replace <your-windows-login> with your username.
sudo vi /etc/vpnc/unibz.conf
#######################################
IPSec gateway vpn.unibz.it
IPSec ID Unibz
IPSec obfuscated secret 06294C134E0BEBDA4B449B56BFD305D35D12DABF4044EDB6794926C2CA6D5AEDFE6342DF190E566EB11215DDC1591D5CB6ABEBEB593693C6D0B2077D78034B6AFEEA3221E77F4
C9858DD711AA8DE58F6
Xauth username <your-windows-login>
#######################################

apply this rights:

sudo chmod 600 /etc/vpnc/unibz.conf

sudo chown root.root /etc/vpnc/unibz.conf
sudo ls -l /etc/vpnc/unibz.conf
-rw------- 1 root root 250 2009-05-02 15:54 /etc/vpnc/unibz.conf

3. Start vpnc

sudo vpnc-connect unibz

This will first ask for your sudo password and then you <windows-password>

4. Stop vpnc

sudo vpnc-disconnect

Shrew Soft VPN Client Instructions for 32 or 64 bit version of Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7 (recommened)

1. Go to http://www.shrew.net/home and download latest stable release of Shrew Soft VPN Client for Windows: http://www.shrew.net/download/vpn

2. Download unibz profile (need to login with unibz login&password) https://pro.unibz.it/vpn/profiles/unibz/Free%20University%20of%20Bozen-Bolzano.zip

3. Install Shrew Soft VPN Client for Windows

4. Start Shrew Soft VPN Client, unzip unibz profile and Import in VPN client

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