A question about VPN Service

A friend has asked for help setting up a Mac Mini Server he just bought for his office. He knows very little about OS X/OS X Server and thought I could help. Unfortunately, while I am familiar with OS X, I know almost nothing about OS X Server.
All he wants OS X Server to do is file sharing and VPN. My question about VPN is this, are there any other services on OS X Server that need to be configured and running for VPN to work?
I understand the router needs to pass VPN traffic but other than that, do I just need to set up the VPN service on the server or do other things like the OS X Server DNS Service have to be up and running as well.
Thanks for your time.
-kpluck

You will also need to have Open Directory running for user authentication.

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ChicagoGuy72 wrote:
Hello,
I am working with vpn setups for the first time, so I have some questions I would really appriciate some help with. I would like to be able to connect to a computer on a home network through a linksys E2500 router. I have found alot of documentation on connecting to an external vpn from a computer on the lan side of the router, but nothing on connecting from the outside in. The router does have a static ip address with my internet provider, so I can contact the router from the outside. But makeing the connection to the computer on the other side of the router is where I am missing something or I dont realize that it is not possible. On the lan side I am using DHCP to assign the address to the computer I want to connect to. Perhaps I need to make it have a static address also? I realize that when I configure the connection from the outside that I need to direct the connection to the remote computer in some way, unless vpn connections are fully passed through the router and the connection issue I am haveing is with the "inside" computer.
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Hi! Experts:
I am at the Web Servivces Navigator.
I have a basic question about it:
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Hi!
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We are currently evaluating various BPM products in order to decide which one to use. Currently I am evaluating ALBPM Studio 5.7 and I am running my processes on the embedded engine provided with the studio. I have some questions:
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I have created a Web service about Function Module 'BAPI_EXCHANGERATE_GETDETAIL'.Now I plan to use Transaction code 'WSADMIN' to create a WSDL.But the display result of IE tell me my host could not be resolved by DNS.I don't know how to solve this question, and which happened based on this question.Is there any experienced experts tell me the solution?
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Kelvin

Hi,
In your system folder:
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I am a programmer, but I know enough about network and server configs to be slightly dangerous when it comes to configurations.
My task today was to try to setup VPN access at our office. We have a 2012R2 standard server that was not doing anything (not even on), so I decided it would be the perfect machine for the job.
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Hi,
There have the Browser Elections procedure when you use WINS service, but the WINS service in domain environment and workgroup environment have the different Browser Election.
By default, all domain controllers in a domain are browser servers.
You can refer the following KB to understand the procedure:
Browser Elections
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc959896.aspx
How Computer Browser Service Works
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc737661(v=ws.10).aspx
Description of the Microsoft Computer Browser Service
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188001
If you install a WINS server the WINS server will handles name registration requests from WINS clients, register their names and IP addresses, and responds to NetBIOS name
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WINS provides the following benefits for administering your TCP/IP-based network:
A dynamic name-to-address database that maintains support for computer name registration and resolution.
Centralized management of the name-to-address database, alleviating the need for managing Lmhosts files.
Reduction of NetBIOS-based broadcast traffic on subnets, by permitting clients to query WINS servers to directly locate remote systems.
Support for earlier Microsoft® Windows® and NetBIOS-based clients on your network, permitting these types of clients to browse lists for remote Windows domains without requiring
a local domain controller to be present on each subnet.
Support for DNS-based clients by enabling those clients to locate NetBIOS resources when WINS lookup integration is implemented.
The related KB:
WINS servers
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/cc781189
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/us-en/library/cc725802.aspx
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I am currently writing a report on the need for our company's SAP interfaces to be moved from the Visual Studio 2003/SAP .NET Connector 1.0 platform to one of the two more up-to-date technologies: ESOA or SAP .NET Connector 3.0.
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Interesting phenomenon -- cellphone iChatAV! -- and a question about VPN...

Maybe a month or so, when I first bought my iSight, I was quite pleased to find that it worked "right out of the box" with my 2001 Quicksilver G4/867 and ActionTec GT701WG DSL modem. I successfully connected to the test sites, to ralphjohnsr, nqmacuser, and rjinwi. Then I got one for work. Oddly enough, I could connect to all the aforementioned sites from work, but could never connect to/from work from/to home (a 2002 Quicksilver G4/800).
Then came the 10.4.7 ppc combo update. All was ok on the home front, but work was a disaster. Couldn't connect to anyone, no test sites, no nuthin'.
After battling the issue since updating in vain, today, for grins and chuckles, I disconnected my work computer from its wired ethernet connection, plugged in my cell phone to a USB port (I've got a 1XRTT cellphone modem script for my Mot T730C) and made a AVchat over PPP dial up via 1XRTT to home! I was really quite surprised that it even worked because dslreports/stest reported my cellphone uplink at a big whoppin' 39kbps max -- usually less -- but it worked multiple times. Kinda absolved my home and work computers and my home DSL modem (and all the current computer and DSL modem firewall port settings) of any guilt....
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As an aside, I did some tcpdumps on all of ichat's ports on both ends of the (cellphone) circuit today along with an errorLogLevel7 -- I plan to consolidate all that into a chronologically arranged excel spreadsheet, since the AV connection was successful, then do the tcpdump game on a failed work ethernet connection to see if a comparison of port logs plus ichat log leads to any clues. (Ralph, if interested when I complete the "successsful call" spreadsheet, you are more than welcome to have a copy to perhaps post on your excellent website -- it would be way too big to post here -- if interested, lemme know.)
Anyways, getting back on track, I'm thinking that work's firewall is my problem, but it seems to me that I should be able to iChatAV over VPN -- I can iChatAV between computers that are both inside work's firewall. So I'm wondering, anybody out there have any experience with using iChatAV through a VPN? I'm using VPN Tracker on my home Mac. Work's VPN gateway requires Checkpoint VPN-1 certificates at both ends.

HI J.v.,
The most likely problem is that your company may be using their internet connection for their phone service as well.
This would also use SIP on port 5060 as ichat does.
Even if they do not use the phones/internet in this way the ISP might offer it and be blocking port to get people to pay for the service.
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First I wan't to say that i've searched the net for info, and all I could find was some advanced code snipets. However, I would like to start from the begining.
I'm trying to develop a web service which takes XML as input parameter, an returns some other XML.
I developed a WS like that
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Please, at least, post a link, I just need some basic pointers.
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Thanks a lot in advance,
Good day,
Simon

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4132419&#4132419
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hi experts,
I develop a web service based on abap FM. When the 3party programs call it, user need to input the username/password.
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Thanks

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I understand you are worried about security (i.e.people accessing the Service anonymously is something you want to avoid). Also, you don't want the people to have to manually authenticate themselves (i.e. enter a User ID and Password) to execute the Service. In this case, you need to use a more sophisticated authentication technique like X.509 SSL Client Certificate or SAP Single Sign On Ticket. This is a complex subject and not suitable for discussion here. Here are links to topics that could get you started.
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2. SAP Help Portal link to the topic Making a Web Service Secure:
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I have a form with a button script that invokes a synchronous soap web service request to an address validation service. It works nicely in testing but I am a bit concerned at what might happen when we go live with respect to the form hanging if the soap server is unavailable or the user is offline.
From some simple tests in production, where the web service is available yet:
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The latter is not good, as it hangs Reader the entire time.
Is there some way I can set a timeout in the soap request. Would it be worth considering an async call? If I changed it to async, could I let the user continue to fill the form and then setFocus with an async flag?

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I'm almost there. I dont think that you can do exception handling in FormCalc. How do I trap the error. So far I have
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Hi,
I am creating the a client to call non wls web serveice.
First I need to create the client jar using clientgen. My question is when i create the client jar I need the wsdl file. where is the correct place to store the wsdl file? Also I have development and production wsdl file with the different service location. Do I have to store both of the wsdl files? It's a trouble to remember to build the different client jar for development and production (using different wsdl), is there anyway that I can build the client jar once and somehow dynamically configure to use different wsdl (ie service location) in different environment? Thanks

Hi Holy,
If you know the WSDL hasn't changed since you used it when running the clientgen Ant task, you can just use the one that is inside the JAR that clientgen produces. To do this, you just need to not specify an argument to the XXX_Impl constructor. For instance:
AttachmentPartsService_Impl service = new AttachmentPartsService_Impl();
This has some performance benefits, because it reduces the total number of network calls, the client-side Web Services stack makes. If you specify the URL for the WSDL to the constructor (as recommended by someone else here), the client-side Web Services stack will issue an HTTP GET to get it. Now if the WSDL that is returned uses types that are different than the ones the clientgen Ant task generated classes for (i.e. the ones in the JAR generated by the clientgen Ant task), you are in trouble because the client-side Web Services doesn't generate serialization/deserialization classes (i.e. the ones in the JAR generated by the clientgen Ant task) "on-the-fly".
The service endpoint for a Web Service call can (and should) be set programmatically, from a properties or configuration file. This will look something like this in the code:
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.xml.rpc.Stub;
private static Properties loadProperties(String fileName) throws IOException
if (fileName == null || fileName.length() == 0) return null;
Properties props = new Properties();
FileInputStream fis = null;
try
fis = new FileInputStream(fileName);
props.load(fis);
finally
if (fis != null) try { fis.close(); } catch (Exception ignore){}
return props;
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Properties props = loadProperties("MyProperties.properties");
Client client = new Client(props);
public Client(Properties properties)
AttachmentPartsService_Impl service = new AttachmentPartsService_Impl();
AttachmentPartsServiceSoap port = service.getAttachmentPartsServiceSoap();
if (schemeHostPort == null) schemeHostPort = "http://localhost:7001";
((AttachmentPartsServiceSoap_Stub)port)._setProperty(
Stub.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY,
properties.getProperty("production.AttachmentPartsService.serviceEndpointURL"));
This way, you can have a different properties file for each environment you propagate the web service to, as opposed to saving copies of WSDL files just to have the "correct" service endpoint address. It also has the additional benefit of letting you store the service endpoint URLs for more than just one web service.
Regards,
Mike Wooten

Question about Windows Services

I've been trying to cut corners on an XP machine. Since it doesn't need network connectivity, I've disabled networking related services. However, I was wondering if System-level (Start type 0x1) services are safe to disable as well (located under SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services).
Specifically, IPSEC, NETBIOS, Tcpip, and TermDD (these are the exact key names).
I have disabled these services, and didn't have any issues booting. But I haven't done anything beyond that (such as long-term affects/unintended side effects).

to be honest, I've not met the first program that ran on XP but not on 7, with needed compatibility configurations. For 16 bit applications you might need to install and run the 32 bit version of the OS (and start looking for replacement software!).
It's true running unneeded stuff is not optimal, but I would like to return your question; why disable functionality if unsure what it does or what the impact might be? If something does not work as expected in a few months, will you be happy to find out
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