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As of version 0.4.3 VPN Activator now support PPTP VPN alongside L2TP VPN. At the moment the application will enable both VPN methods on your Mac. It is up to you to decide which one you want to expose to the internet. To expose a PPTP VPN access you simply need to direct all traffic on TCP [...] I have good and bad news about the integration of Wide Area Bonjour and VPN Activator. The good news is that I have been able to successfully integrate Wide Area Bonjour into VPN Activator. AirPrint shared printers are now listed in my VPN connected iPhone 4. The bad news is that I can’t print to them. I get an error [...]
I have run into multiple obstacles:
The VPN Activator is getting pretty stable now but the one thing that get me wanting for more is the fact that Apple’s Bonjour service advertisement does not work across a VPN. I might have found a way to make this work. I will start to work on a possible solution today and hope to [...] I have spent a fait bit of time working on the internals of VPN Activator. It is now at a point where:
I All the routines that execute OS level commands have been redone to only use the necessary privileges levels. I also added validation routines for all input fields to make sure there was appropriate content in each. I just received an email from my hosting service provider asking me to comply with the request to disable the AirPrintHacktivator web page or else they will suspend my service. I certainly don’t want to loose my web presence so I will comply with the request even if I find it excessive. I am also in the process of [...]  Image via Wikipedia I have started working on the new VPN Hacktivator application that will allow to turn you Mac in a full IPSec VPN server. This will allow your iDevices and mobile devices like Macbooks, laptops or Netbook to connect back to your home network over the internet. I started developing the application as AppleScriptobjc but since then changed direction. I am now developing the application as a Cocoa Objective-C application leveraging some source code from the iVPN 2.4b project. iVPN was a free application (now pay only) that used to do what VPN Hacktivator will do… but it has not been supported for years now as an opensource project and won’t work well on Snow Leopard. I know very little about Objective-C so the learning curve is a bit steep… but so far I have a proof of concept application that can create the necessary configuration files by using user provided data captured via a Cocoa GUI. While working on my next project, VPN Hacktivator, I received an email from omm.com on behalf of Apple instructing me to take down the AirPrint Hacktivator pages. Until version 1.7 of the application some 10.6.5 beta files where included in the application resource folder and where in some case used (without being really needed) by the application. As [...]
It is finally here, aTV Flash (black) beta was just released. There are multiple ways to get your hands on the fresh beta: 1. Existing aTV Flash users can download it for free 2. Pre-Order for aTV Flash (black) is now open at an introductory price of $19.95. Once aTV Flash is out of beta the price will jump to $29.95 3. Registered beta users will soon receive an invitation with instructions on how to get a copy of the beta version. What is included in this beta you ask? Continue reading aTV Flash (black) beta now available (Mac only for now) Following the success of AirPrint Hacktivator I am thinking of writing another little Hacktivator application to help with the activation of the OS X dormant VPN capabilities. Unknown to most users OS X contains all the engines needed to allow iPhones/iPads/iPod Touch to establish a VPN connection with your Mac back home… the only problem is that multiple files have to be created and services started to make it work. This is essentially what the OS X Server does with those same files via the provided GUI. As you might guess this GUI is missing from OS X “user” edition. Here is where VPN Hacktivator will come handy. It will offer a minimalistic way of activating the dormant capabilities. I expect the 1st release to be fairly simple. Just enough to get a VPN connection possible via PPTP to your Mac using an existing Mac user account name. Future release should be able to add more functionality/options. |
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I have been working for the last two days on getting Wide Area Bonjour (WAB) working as a proof of concept to allow home network bonjour services to be visible across an IPSec L2TP VPN.