Configuring Windows 7 with your new Lion server can be a bit of a challenge for both novice and advanced users alike. I’d like to take a few minutes to explain the procedure for connecting your Windows 7 machine with a Lion server via VPN. Follow closely, as there are many intricate steps during the configuration. Initial Configuration First, I recommend following the Macminicolo guide to get your Lion VPN up and running. Once the [...]
If you're coming to this article via Google or some other external source, you should know that we covered the use of a VPN connection in detail on our Windows 7 setup instructions. This article is a guide to help Windows XP users who need to connect to a remote Mac server for file sharing. We have to configure this through a VPN connection. We actually recommend using the built-in VPN connection on the Mac server. [...]
Over the years, we’ve set up many clients with a Mac server for VPN, file sharing, Web Hosting, etc. During that time, the number of “bilingual” companies (I use that term for offices that speak both Mac and PC) increased dramatically. Most, if not all, of our new server installations ask about PC connectivity for file sharing. It only takes a few minutes to configure the Mac server for VPN, but the client-side configuration can [...]
