Re: [school-discuss] Portable applications & VPN services

[Chris Gregan <cgregan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would this be something like a USB stick booting a VPN enable Linux 
distro that would then mount a drive? That might be easier than all the 
programming overhead that would have to go on using a USB drive as a VPN 
authenticator. I believe a discussion just happened here about a VPN 
live CD. Could this be modified to boot from USB and mount a specified 
/home folder after setting up a VPN connection?

Chris Gregan
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lee wrote:
> WRT to my previous post on SimDesk, I'm wondering about alternatives for 
> small schools ... like using Portable Applications on a cross-platform 
> USB stick that was set up to access one of those commercial VPN 
> services.  I'm thinking of how a school's students could carry a 
> Portable Applications USB stick to a library and log into the school's 
> VPN site. They'd essentially be able to access their personal /home 
> directory (akin to Karoshi's Moodle implementation, but on a 
> desktop-on-VPN base, not web-based like Moodle).
>
> IF a small school were to try to function w/ a minimum of 
> infrastructure, could it be done this way? And how hard would it be for 
> a larger school to implement its own VPN capacity? Are there security & 
> privacy concerns?
>
> see:
> Portable apps:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_portable_software
>
> Commercial VPN services:
> http://www.instant-vpn.com
> http://www.blueroam.com
> http://www-vpn.net
>
> /lee
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