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Chapter 8, Desktop Programs
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Applications
OK, so now you should have a working connection to the office VPN server
(and the office LAN), so what are you going to do with it? Perhaps the sim-
plest thing to do now is to launch your favorite web browser, and point it at
the company’s intranet server. If you have a Microsoft Exchange server, try
pointing your web browser at http://mailserver/exchange, where mailserver is
the actual name of your Exchange server. Then you should be able to log in
with your username and password and access your email. Alternatively, you
can set up the email client on your Linux machine to pull mail from your
corporate mail server, or you can access your work machine via RDP if it is a
Windows XP desktop, or VNC if it is anything else
[Hack #30]. Basically, once
you have a VPN connection to your corporate network, you can do any-
thing you would do at work, just a little more slowly.
It is important to remember that all packets passing over the VPN are
encrypted, which introduces a bit of latency. This does not normally present
a problem with most applications—e.g., web, email, file transfers. Some
applications, such as Voice over IP, will be affected by this latency and will
require careful tuning to operate successfully.
—Ron Wellsted
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Play Restricted Media Formats Hack #69
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