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DESCRIPTION

AlmostVPN is an ssh tunnel manager for Mac OS X with a twist. This is what makes AlmostVPN different:

  • It's packaged as Preference Pane, so you do not have to use yet another application to configure your tunnels
  • It uses creative network configuration techniques to provide almost VPN-like access to remote services, so you can keep using real IP addresses and port numbers while accessing service on the other side of your tunnels.
  • It provides a simple way to:
    • Mount remote volumes
    • Use your remote printers and faxes
    • Access your iTunes, iPhoto and almost any other Bonjour-based application
    • Upload/download/execute files (with support for console and X11 based applications)
    • Use your favorite remote access application (VNC, ARD, RDC or just good old shell)
    • It is scriptable, so you can start/stop your profiles exactly when you need it
    • It can import tunnel definitions from SSH Tunnel Manager, SSHKeychain, SSH Agent and JellyfiSSH
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REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Leaping Bytes, LLC
Downloads:17,146
  - Version d/l:1,008
Utilities:Network
License:Shareware
Date:26 Oct 2007
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$15.00
RATING
****.
DEVELOPER POLL
Q: It is too bad that 1.x does not support this 0.9.x feature
runs on Panther
connects to SSH v 1.0 servers
"sudo-less" operations
AlmostVPN User Reviews (61 posts)Write A Review
Aug 4 2007

PIRX  www.leapingbytes.com seems to be down.

August 4, 2007, 1:26 a.m. Eastern  (Version 1.5.1)

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May 25 2007

K0T1K  www.leapingbytes.com is back in business.

thank you for your patience.

Andrei Tchijov

Leaping Bytes, LLC  (Version 1.4)

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May 23 2007

K0T1K  My trusty G4 which was used as a web/mail server by Leaping Bytes, just went down hard. I am trying to figure out what to do about it.

Sorry for inconvenience,

Andrei Tchijov

Leaping Bytes, LLC  (Version 1.4)

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May 17 2007
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IMPERIALFLOW  There are a lot of comments about how easy this software is to use, and I can only believe that that must be for an older version.

I recently tried v1.4 to simply give me a nice interface for starting and stopping some SSH tunnels to a few servers I need to access.

The setup for this is so complicated I can't begin to understand the rhyme or reason. After an hour of just trying to get one tunnel working following the documentation at the developer's website I gave up.

The interface is crowded, the "Profile" and "Service" mechanism couldn't be more counter-intuitive, and once you get it all setup you can't even change the hostname of the "source" location to anything that makes sense... you know... like "localhost"

Anyway. I gave up. It was MUCH easier to download the old source code of "SSH Tunnel Manager" and build myself a Universal Binary than it was to get AlmostVPN to do a basic SSH tunnel.

AlmostVPN needs an AlmostVPN Lite for those people who are just looking for a tunnel manager.

I'm giving it 2 stars because, while it didn't crash on me, it couldn't achieve what I wanted in any kind of intuitive manner.  (Version 1.4)

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