RE: [WinMac] WinGate, Mandrake Linux and Russian tech problem.

From: Richard Doyle (rdoyle[at]islandnetworks.com)
Date: Tue Jul 10 2001 - 13:47:44 PDT

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    I certainly understand your desire to move away from Windows. I moved
    from Wingate to an LRP (Linux Router Project) box more than a year ago,
    and am quite happy with the results.

    Lots of luck.

    -Richard

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Brian Durant [mailto:bdurant@peterlink.ru]
    > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 1:03 PM
    > To: Windows-MacOS cooperation list.
    > Subject: Re: [WinMac] WinGate, Mandrake Linux and Russian
    > tech problem.
    >
    >
    > On 10/7/01 22:23, Richard Doyle at rdoyle@islandnetworks.com
    > wrote: / den
    > 10/7/01 22:23 skrev Richard Doyle fra
    > rdoyle@islandnetworks.com følgende:
    >
    > >> 2) Can't access Gatekeeper as it is password protected and no
    > >> one knows the
    > >> password, except for the first set of techs.
    > > This makes it difficult, and perhaps impossible, to fix
    > your problem.
    > > You will have to work around a configuration that you can't
    > determine
    > > and can't change. You really should buy a new license, or
    > contact the
    > > techs at http://wingate.deerfield.com for help.
    >
    > To tell the truth, I simply don't feel that I am capable of
    > doing this on my
    > own, I have had some bad tech experiences over here and this
    > is really just
    > another good reason for switching my daughter's computer to
    > Linux, as I see
    > it. I really am fed up, but am trying to respect my
    > daughter's wishes in
    > trying to keep her machine bumping on down the Internet super
    > highway with
    > Windows. That, as well as my lack of knowledge as to setting
    > up firewalls
    > properly in Linux and not yet having a clear overview as to
    > whether Mandrake
    > Linux will work on a Fujitsu/Siemens Easy PC motherboard and
    > USB bridge.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Brian
    > --
    >
    >
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