INDIAN car with International Design features for just 1.3 Lacs

INDIAN car with International Design features for just 1.3 Lacs by Mahindra competition of TATA’s mini car.

According to XE-currency converter, 1–U.S Dollar = 46.5755 Indian Rupees.

In India:

1–Lac = 100,000.00 Rupees(one-hundred thousand rupees),

therefore: 1.3Lac = 130,000.00 Rupees(one hundred and thirty thousand Rupees).

In U.S dollars, is approximately $2,791.00(two-thousand, seven hundred and ninety one United states dollars).

 

In Nigeria, this brand new, locally innovated and designed car would amount to NGN450,000.00(four hundred and fifty thousand Naira only) at an exchange rate of 1–USD=NGN150,000.00

Question: when will such an achievement be possible locally?

How to setup a VPN Client on Windows XP Professional

Problem: I am a system administrator in a company with three offices. An ISP in town provides me microwave-radio connectivity between two of my offices and their base station, and a VSAT connectivity to the third as it’s in another part of the country.

I have setup my VPN server at my HQ. I need to set up VPN clients at my branch office.

1) click your start menu >> control panel >> network and internet connections >> network connections
Click: create a new connection

2) You’ll get the ‘Welcome to the New Connection’ wizard, click ‘Next’ to continue

3) On the ‘Network Connection Type’ page, select the ‘Connect to the network at my workplace’ option and click ‘next’ to continue

4) select the ‘Virtual Private Network connection’ option and click ‘next’ to continue

5) Type a name for your VPN connection. Note: this is much like a label. You can name it anything. For this exercise, I call it myvpn1. Click ‘next’ to continue

6) The VPN server selection screen prompts for the server-name or IP address of your VPN server. If you are not the system administrator of your VPN server, you need to ask him/her for the VPN server-name or IP address and enter it here.

For this exercise, I typed in the IP address of my VPN server. Click ‘next’ to continue

7) Add the connection icon to your desktop for easy access and click ‘Finish’.

You’ll be prompted to immediately connect to your VPN server. If the VPN-server is online, type in the valid username and password as provided by your system administrator.

Click ‘connect’ to continue

If all goes well, you will be prompted to ‘accept’ the connection. Click ‘accept’ to login.

Note: if there are no other protocols other than TCP/IP to be requested for/configured during your VPN connection, check the box ‘do not request failed protocols next time’ so as not to receive the error msg: IPX/SPX or compatible CP reported error 733 blah blah blah’ every time you try to connect.

You’ll get a similar prompt on your toolbar:

9) Now, If you check your network connections on your client PC, or the desktop shortcut, you can see myvpn1 is connected

12) To disconnect from or connect to your server, right click your desktop VPN icon or on the VPN icon in ‘network connections’ above, and select ‘disconnect/connect’.

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How to setup a VPN Server on Windows XP Professional

I’ve been asked several times: how can I setup a VPN. Here I put together a tutorial of my own.

Problem: I am a system administrator in a company with three offices. An ISP in town provides me microwave-radio connectivity between two of my offices and their base station, and a VSAT connectivity to the third as it’s in another part of the country. Heres how I setup my VPN server at the HQ.

My server, for this exercise is a Windows XP Professional, with service pack2.

1) click your start menu >> control panel >> network and internet connections >> network connections
Click: create a new connection

2) You’ll get the ‘Welcome to the New Connection’ wizard, click ‘Next’ to continue

3) Select ‘setup an advanced connection’, click ‘next’ to continue

4) select ‘accept incoming connections’, click ‘next’ to continue

5) As your connection will be over/through your ISPs NOC, theres no need to bother
about this. Click ‘next’ to continue

6) The Incoming VPN connection page opens, select ‘allow virtual private connections’ and click ‘next’ to continue

7) Here, you need to choose which users/usernames are allowed to make VPN connections into your server. At least there should be one user. Check the box on the left to select a user, and click ‘properties’ to configure a password for your selected user. Click ‘ok’ when you’re done.

Note: to add more users, you can click on the add button and you’ll be prompted to add a user name and password. Click ok.

 

Click ‘next’ to continue

To define the range of IP addresses of the connecting parties, select the check box beside ‘Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)’ and click ‘properties’. I have decided to specify the IP addresses of the 5-VPN connections/users at my branch starting at ‘from’ and ending at ‘to’. If your VPN server is your DHCP server select the first option or else, allow the calling party to specify its own IP address. Click ‘ok’ to continue.

9) click ‘next’ to continue

10) whew, so fast, ure done.

11) back to your network connections, you should see the ‘Incoming connection’ icon, with no clients connected –if no clients are connected,

Else, it shows the number of VPN connections and who(username ‘test) is connected.

To disconnect a user, right click on the username(test in this case) and select ‘disconnect’.

 

To be continued: how to setup a VPN client on Windows XP Professional