Guys, I'm just a little bit confused. From what I understand a VPN is just a secure way to access your home network shares from a remote location. Now days im hearing about all this VPN Tunneling and im curious as to how I might set this up. I know how to create a VPN Connection in XP/2k3 or any windows based OS, but creating a secure VPN tunnel that I can route my traffic through while im at say a starbucks or something I'm a little lost. I read about something called OpenVPN but haven't found a well written tutorial on setting it up and getting it to work properly. Anyone know of any alternative, links? Thanks in advance.

A vpn might be considered a secure link between two trusted computers. It secures the link not the original computer from damage to your computer. If you use a kiosk computer it may cause quite a bit of damage to your system. Your system would normally view all settings on your vpn'ed computer as a trusted lan computer. Consider the older version of barracudadrive at softpedia. It has a simple way to access your home via https. All VPN's require some detailed configuration. To make it worse, some may not be secure. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

So with this barracudadrive, I can route my WAN traffic through a home VPN connection running on this 2k3 machine?

Sorry, I may have mis-read that. If you have a win2003 server then you should be able to configure a VPN server that is quite secure. You do not need openvpn or barracudadrive. Start here. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/... I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

Yea I can configure a VPN fine. What I'm trying to do is tunnel all my internet traffic through a VPN remotely. Locally as well if possible, mainly for the knowledge and experience.

if u r using windows for vpn tunnel i think u should go for the pptp tunnel cos it use GRE genric routing encryption to secure ur data, GRE is Cisco developed algo which was sold to windows corp. now its commanly used. further more IPsec tunnel is very much popular these days and cisoc people mainily use ipsec tunnel. S.khurram Pakistan Thank you

Okay now would you happen to know of a good link that would have a well written tutorial of tunneling my taffic through a VPN?