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Almost VPN Version 0.9 Beta 2 Release Notes

NOTE !!!

AlmostVPN is using sudo to start ssh sessions, as a result "known_hosts" from "root" environment gets consulted (not from user environment) to find out if server is "known" server, as a result, if you never SSH-ed to given server from root account AlmostVPN WILL NOT WORK. Next version of AlmostVPN will have fix for this issue. Meanwhile, you should be able to solve the problem by trying to ssh to the server using sudo

Something like this should do:

sudo ssh account@server

When/If asked about "fingerprint" answer "yes". You will need to do it only once. Sorry for inconvenience.

Supported Platform - Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Product gets developed and tested on Mac OX 10.4.3. To the best of author knowledge there is no any reason why it should not work on earlier versions. Please let me know if it worked for you on older versions.

What Is New Since Beta 1

  • "Quick Config" dialog now provides "Existing Command Line" field. It is possible to cut/paste your favorite SSH command line and AlmostVPN will parse it and configure itself accordingly
  • "Account Manager" now provides explicit control over use of key files to support password-less login
  • "Account Manager" now allows to specify "private" IP address for NAT'ed networks.

What Was Fixed Since Beta 1

  • AFP and SMB drives do work now!!! See FAQ for details
  • All combo boxes are hooked up and all dialogs do what they supposed to do

What Still Does Not Work:

  • You can not use more than one "Almost VPN" connection for given service at a time. What does it mean? You can configure 10 connections to different private e-mail servers, but you will be able to access only one of them at a time. On the other side, you can mount as many different volumes as you want as soon as they all come from the same server. This limitation will stay for recreational version of the product, but will be removed in professional version.
  • "Almost VPN" connection for "Apple Remote Desktop" was not tested at all. I will appreciate a lot if someone who has ARD tries it and let me know.