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    Question XP Pro - Saving VPN info

    Does anyone know if there is anyway I can extract all my VPNs saved in XP to a text file or CSV file?

    Im about to wipe my laptop & start again due to XP running really slow, so much I have to log it on & off 4-5 times before everything loads correctly, or leave my laptop at the log in screen for 10 minutes (I kid you not)

    Due to the fact the amount of software I test before applying it or selling it to customers...

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    How many do you have? I thought my 6 was excessive.
    The only really important bit is the address/IP...copy and past to notepad file? or write down on paper even!
    I cant be bothered to check, but i know with dial up connections, you can just drag them over to a floppy/other removable storage for back up...probably possible...give it a go.
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    I dont think there is an easy way to export them off hand - All the ways I know mean you loose the username and password.

    a quick google found these , which might be of use ?

    http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips7.html
    http://blog.project84.net/ExportingA...nnections.aspx
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    Thanks, I have 35 at the moment, soon to have more as we build up our customer base...

    At the moment, username & password missing isnt really an issue.

    Maybe notepad & some time will be easier.

    Going to have XP Pro & SUSE 10 on my laptop as im looking at Linux alternatives for workstations & guess who's testing it...

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    Sounds good - why not try vmware / virtual PC for application testing btw ?
    makes rebuilds a lot easier.

    I had a go with linux as a desktop OS for outsourced support ( I'm guessing doing stuff not too dissimilar to yours ) and while I didn't spend too long playing around with it , the only thing that wasn't so easy was getting pptp connections , but I'm sure its propbably not that difficult.

    Heres a suggestion for you that I know some support companies do from a security point of view
    Instead of having your local workstation with all the VPN's on it ,why not have a support machine in a DMZ area of your network with the VPNs onto it. Access to that machine is done from a TS session on your local desktop. ( Linux RDP clients work fine )

    That way you have a nice layer of seperation from your clients network so they can feel happy and secure about it.

    also if you use a number of SBS boxes , why bother with the VPns and use remote web workspace ?
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    Moby, very good suggestions, Id like to use vmware, just the cost is the big issue, we have virtual pc & virtual server, but I find VPC a bit more resource hungry & my laptop has 512mb, trying to get an upgrade though....

    Im trying SUSE 10 on a recommendation, installed it ok last night, it resized the windows partition & it still works (touch wood)

    Problem I have is our office is very small & having a dedicated machine to use for VPNs would be ideal, will run it past the boss in the new year.

    Nearly all our customers are 2000 & 2003 server, a few SBS but then we dont hear from them often.

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    Thats coz SBS works

    I've had a play with Vmware and was impressed at it , but my evaluation ran out. It doesn't seem too expensive , and I'm sure you can do some cost justifications on it.

    I played around with centOS ( had a client that wanted to migrate from RHE but wound't pay for it )

    it was a doddle to use for day to day stuff ( Outlook Web access and RDP client did most of it for me )
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    Moby, sorry to pick you up on this but are you saying put a server in the DMZ of a NAT gateway? If so, thats bad practice, as it means you can be vunerable to spoofing enless you have a rule there to make sure that port is always forwarded. I only pick up on this because about a month ago, a server got spoofed by a cunning attack based around that, need you guess who the security consultant was The IT staff were quite shocked because they hadn't bother to consider it as a attack posibility (all i did was ask the gateway to open pretty much every port to my laptop).
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    I'm not 100% with you on that one , I know there are a couple of definitions of DMZ. The one I *think* you are referring to is where all unforwarded ports would go to the DMZ server.I'm referring to what woudl be desribed as the orange zone on a smoothwall. That is to say the server is firewalled between the DMZ and private LAN as well as the public network. You only allow port 3389 traffic from the private LAN and then only allow outbound VPN connectivity from the DMZ to the public LAN.
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    I'm not 100% with you on that one , I know there are a couple of definitions of DMZ. The one I *think* you are referring to is where all unforwarded ports would go to the DMZ server.I'm referring to what woudl be desribed as the orange zone on a smoothwall. That is to say the server is firewalled between the DMZ and private LAN as well as the public network. You only allow port 3389 traffic from the private LAN and then only allow outbound VPN connectivity from the DMZ to the public LAN.
    Does this make more sence ?
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    yup!
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