Setting Up a VPN on a Mac - Setting Up the Server
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These instructions are for Mac OSX 10.4.
1. Open the server Admin. You can get to this via drive/Applications/server.
2. User your username and password to connect your server to its IP address.
3. Once the connection has been made, you will see a list of services for the machine. Choose VPN and you will notice that the VPN settings will show up on the right hand side of the screen.
4. Look for a tab labeled “L2TP” and click on it.
5. Look for a label with “MS-CHAPv2” and specify a shared secret for the VPN. Make it a good one, since this will be an important part of the connection process. Try to use a non-dictionary word with numbers and as many letters as possible.
6. Find the “PPTP” tag and click on it. Then specify the address pool for users who connect via PPTP -- just in case you have a Windows XP user connecting to the network.
7. Find the “client information” tab and click on it. Specify your DNS servers, which will vary depending on the IP address.
8. Set up user accounts. This can be done with a piece of software called workgroup manage. You can find it in the same place you found the server admin software. Again, be sure to create a strong password.
There you have it. You now have one Mac server set up. You may have noticed that some information, like what addresses to specify, was left out. This was not done to frustrate you, but because they will be situation-specific, and any examples given would only serve to confuse someone who has not set up a VPN in the past. Please get this information before you begin the setup, and have it on hand. This will make your process much easier.
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