Two questions

[stu28bu]

I am evaluating the Wingate VPN only software prior to a possible deployment and I have 2 more questions:

1) When I give the software to my employees to install on their computers at home inorder to connect to the office, is there anyway to have an installation file that doesn't include the VPN server? Or at least doesn't provide the icons for starting and stoping? In other words a dummied down installation for non-computer type folks.

2) Say one of my employees uses ICS at their home - what are they supposed to do when it comes to installing and running the VPN client? I obviously can't expect my employees to alter their home setups *just* to connect to the office servers. Any ideas?

On a side note, I just installed the WinGate VPN trial on my home computer. And with the VPN server running started ICS and was able to start the VPN client and connect to myself. I don't currently have another comptuer that I am able to set the software up on to fully test it, but it seems as if the warning messages you get about not installing when ICS/ICF is running are really designed for the full WinGate program. Is this true, and if so any chances of a workaround or a new installer?

[MattP]

Hi Stu,

If WinGate is installed as a service then it will automatically start at boot time and you can set the VPN to connect automatically also. This way the home users wouldn't have to do anything to get connected.

Version 1.2.3 of WinGate VPN-only does not work with ICS but the next version of VPN-only will. At this time, if you're trialling version 6 beta you'll notice that the VPN will work with ICS but you do still see the error message. Obviously when we release the next VPN-only version we'll make sure this error doesn't appear.

Regards,

Matt

[stu28bu]

Thanks Matt.

I guess the question begs when will the new VPN only version be out?

[MattP]

Well, there's a strong possibility it will be released at the same time as we release version 6, we just have to check that it's been building ok really.

Matt

[stu28bu]

Sorry Matt, I should have clarified myself. I see how you guys are keeping the version numbers in check with each other so I was expecting them to be released at the same time. However on your news section you said that 6.0 would be out early July. Is that still the timetable? I just noticed that the beta only came out July 1 and expires July 22, so that made me think it had been pushed back to early August.

Thanks!

[MattP]

At this time we're aiming for a mid July release for version 6 and the VPN only will probably be out then too.

Matt