Configure a XP Pro PC as a VPN server for free

Male: Harrison, I was thinking of the attack we did last month. Harrison: Where I thought our cast put anything. Male: right, we are at the coffee shop and run the Wi-Fi, sniffing that guy’s pockets and we could see all of its instant message communication in clear text Harrison: Yes, ring passwords too. Male: Right, now I was thinking there is some plug ins for like game to encrypt your stuff or a trillian. Harrison: Yes, but the problem with this is first of all trillian was cracked and second of all with game you have to have this--both clients have to have the same plug installed. Male: Right, and that does not encrypt all of the other traffics like-- Harrison: Right, it is just specifics. Male: Why do we not let everybody now what we use here to encrypt their traffic in state secure while we are on encrypted wireless communication? Herson: Okay, well we use is the VPN is the virtual private network. Male: And, that is basically a tunnel between you and the server that is encrypted and capsulated if you were to sniff it if you would not see anything, but garbage. Herson: Just a bunch of garbage. Male: Now, we use server 2003 here. Herson: Right, but you do not have to use when the server 2003. You can also do an XP, right? Male: Yes, that is one of the most overlooked features of windows XP is there is actually VP and server built in. It is not as robust as the server 2003, but the only main limitation is that you can only have one concurrent user. Herson: Well, for a home network that was not too bad, then. Male: No, it is not at all. I use it to work to come into the home network and be able to get access to my MP3s, stream music if I do not have my IPod on me. Herson: Cool, well, so why don’t you show us how it is. Male: Sure, it is really easy, just open up network connections and we create a new connection. And we are going to create an advance connection and accepting common connections. There we are going to skip, got virtual private connections. We will select a user and then, we click properties on TCP/IP and this is where we specify the IP range that we are going to assign to the users that are logged in to the system. Harrison: But, if you use an SPS--not really important, because you only have one important. Male: Well, it is just important to have a range, but-- Harrison: Right, the range. Male: There is only one IP address that is going to be use, because one concurrent connection. Net, finish and the only last up is to make sure that you port forting in this case it is 1723, because it is point, point how many particle. So just make sure you port for to any router to the server and we have got our incoming connection. Harrison: alright, well what do we have to do on the cline in? Male: Now, the cline in can be Mac, Linux, Windows XP windows 2000 there is even a download for windows ‘98 and below. Henson: Really? Male: Yes, so while you are showing that in the show notes, and to do that in XP, you just create your connection again, and we are going to do this we are gong to choose a network at my workplace, VPN and then give it a name, and I am going to call it home and tell not to dial an initial connection, because we are not on dial up, give it the-- Herson: Public IP address. Male: Public IP address or your dine DNS if you have service like that and after that you just enter your credentials, so I give it my user and Password and save that and connect and there you go. You are now connected to your home network and if you go over the details you can see that we have been assigned the IP address 1921682.108 Herson: Okay Male: And, the server is on 2.100, so all you have to do is go to back, backslash the server is IP address and there we go. So now, I can access all of my stuff that I have shared on my computer, where you can also just do some pretty cool things, as well like for example you can access all of your shared itunes music and-- Herson: Yes, and if you got airport express-- Male: Then, you can now login your network and blast the ears of your roommate with musi