Existing users, log in.  New users, create a free account.  Lost password?

Mac OS X  |  Internet  |  Other Internet  |  AlmostVPN  |  More complicated than doing it via CLI

AlmostVPN

AlmostVPN

SSH tunnel manager with a twist

Version:  1.6 pre

   [ Views: 427 ]

More complicated than doing it via CLI

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: mikirby Monday, August 11 2008 @ 11:00 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: NO

I cannot for the life of my understand why a GUI SSH app would be more complicated to set up than a command line to do the same thing in terminal.

True, once you've puzzled out the unorthodox interface, you can start all your needed ssh services with a click of a button** (**once you wrap your mind around the local client process being called "AVPN Server".) But the same thing is true if you use the freeware CLIX to set up a terminal command to do it, or one of several other free, lightweight utilities. And believe me, if you don't already know how to set up a terminal SSH command to to what you need to do, you're not going to be able to figure out how to get this app to do it.

It's a shame, because the programmer obviously put a lot of work and care into this and the basic idea is powerful. But this is a case of a solution being much more complicated than the problem it's supposed to solve.   
Overall Rating:

Ease of Use:

Support:

Features:

Quality / Stability:

Price:

Rate this Review

Was this Review helpful? Yes | No

Comments

1 comments |

BTW: SSH volume mounting is easier with MacFusion - mikirby

By the way, to mount a remote volume in Finder via an SSH connection, I installed MacFuse and MacFusion. Much more painless way to do the same thing, and mounts FTP volumes, too.

Reply to This

Monday, August 11 2008 @ 11:05 PM PDT