Palm Treo 500v User Manual page 253

Connecting to a VPN
If you want to use your smartphone to
access your corporate email account or
other files on your corporate server, you
may need to set up a VPN (virtual private
network). A VPN enables you to log in to
your corporate server through the
company's firewall (security layer).
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
company's system administrator to see if a
VPN is required to access the corporate
network. If you need a VPN, you
must purchase and install a third-party VPN
client to use this feature.
Ask your corporate system administrator
for the following information:
The VPN type: IPSec/L2TP or PPTP
•
Your server name
•
The type of network you are connecting
•
from and the type you are connecting
to: Internet, MMS, WAP , or other
Your VPN username and password
•
Your server's domain name
•
The IPSec authentication type, if any
•
The IPSec preshared key, if any
•
Check with your
Y O U R P E R S O N A L S E T T I N G S
1 Install your third-party VPN client (see
Installing applications).
2 Press Home , and then press
Start (left softkey).
3 Navigate to the My Settings content
list and press All Settings
softkey).
4 Select Connections, select More, and
then select VPN.
5 Select the connection you want to view
or change, or to create a new
connection, select New.
6 If this is a new connection, select
Description and enter a descriptive
name for the connection.
7 Select each field and enter the
information you obtained from your
system administrator.
8 Press Done
Setting up a proxy server
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
information from your ISP or system
administrator:
The type of network you are connecting
•
from, and the type you are connecting
to: Internet, MMS, WAP , or other
(right
(left softkey).
Obtain the following
C O N N E C T I O N S E T T I N G S
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